George Takei Quotes

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

A recession is when a neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

We're living in hard times.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

A recession is a period in which you tighten your belt. In a depression, you have no belt to tighten. In a panic you have no pants left to hold up.

The miseries of the Indonesian people are sandwiched between two thick slabs of bread—one the bread of hope, the other the bread of patience

A recession forces excruciatingly difficult choices.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.