Collapse Quotations | Page 2

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

We believe earnings momentum should turn strongly positive by the second quarter, but earnings gains in 2002 are unlikely to come close to reversing the collapse in 2001.

It felt good once we got back into it and we started playing better defense and getting in to what we usually do, but then I don't know what happened, we collapsed and we couldn't get back up.

We know it's easy to get swept away in a growth market. But I've been in this business more than 25 years and I've watched investors figure out a way to justify incredible multiples, only to see valuations collapse back to the underlying worth of the company. We are value investors, and at these prices, we aren't going to buy names like Microsoft.

We know it's easy to get swept away in a growth market, ... But I've been in this business more than 25 years and I've watched investors figure out a way to justify incredible multiples, only to see valuations collapse back to the underlying worth of the company. We are value investors, and at these prices, we aren't going to buy names like Microsoft.

Those who chose not to get out of the way of the water ... we're trying to find them in trees and under collapsed buildings.

We don't want to be responsible for the collapse of the government,

We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut spending, this country is already broke. We are going off the financial cliff: the big cliff that is going to cause a total economic collapse of America.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.