“Either you have a big adjustment like a 20 percent or 30 percent decline, or you have a big recession or you have a slow decline in property prices or several years of no growth.”
Andy Xie
“This recession should have been a major wake-up call for all businesses, but those institutions deemed “too big to fail” have also been allowed to be “too big to learn.””
Thomas J. Powell
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.”
Peter Lynch
“A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.”
Dave Barry
“I think we are in a recession. All the major indicators are not just declining, but have been declining for a while,”
Mickey Levy
“That's the time when a big number is most likely, mainly when we're coming out of a recession. At this stage of the business cycle, to be getting a 5 percent growth rate in productivity for a year is really very impressive.”
Charles Lieberman
“We went into recession in March [2001], and in April we had our first decline in payrolls. Firms responded really quickly to the downturn, and we don't see any reason why they won't respond quickly to the upturn as well.”
Melanie Jani
