This collection holds 20 recessions quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Jenifer Lewis, Jack Welch and Aaron Patzer.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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You can't wake up looking for the recession.

Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

There's never a recession if you work for the government.

We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

I don't know if you call a burger recession food. It's comfort food.

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

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