Crisis Quotes
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No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.
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It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.
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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
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Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
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The great bulk of the public doesn't believe this president any more when he tries to gin up a phony crisis. They don't believe he'd have much of an idea of how to deal with a real one. Enough of the lies. Enough of the incompetence and failure.
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Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
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When a crisis is unfolding, you don't think of it as competing for time and resources. Everyone needs to stretch--keeping focused on running the business and doing what needs to be done in the face of intense need. You have to do more.
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It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.
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Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.
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Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.
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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
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People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
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Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.
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I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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The greatest crisis in the world today is a crisis of leadership, and the greatest crisis of leadership is a crisis of character.
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Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
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The financial crisis of 2008-09 made for a highly unsatisfying morality tale. It devastated struggling borrowers with weak credit ratings, while leaving the financiers who created exploding monstrosities like synthetic CDOs relatively unscathed.
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A more robust approach to global warming is needed if we are to avoid catastrophe. Unlike the recent financial crisis, there is no bailout option for the earth's climate.
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Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
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When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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In times of crisis, cash is king.
