Casey Stengel Quotes

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

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.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

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.

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

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.

When the economy gets wobbly, people pay attention to the leadership failures.

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

The Depression is a good thing generally. Let them fail. Let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself ns my own ideas. Let other people do the same.

A recession forces excruciatingly difficult choices.

The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.