Crisis Recovery Quotes

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

The financial system is drifting back to business as usual a bit to quickly …. We are starting to see risky behavior of the sort that people were scared of after the crises

Crisis management … is the worst type of policy because you will miss things.

India has always come out of crises renewed and on a higher growth path.

I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you want to end up? What's your endgame? We try to start from that and work ourselves back.