Famous Quotes & Sayings

A bursting of the housing bubble could result in a severe recession.

Lev Grossman

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

John Thompson

During the Internet bubble people focused on the fast companies,

Steve Sampson

Sometimes that's even more difficult because these are the guys on the bubble as far as making the World Cup squad for Korea. They're going to be fighting the hardest to win a spot; sometimes they're the most dangerous teams to play against.

These monthly numbers are very erratic. It can be that this is a sign (of the bubble bursting), but I would never make too much of one month's number. Especially since the other timely data we get, the mortgage applications for home purchases, have still been pretty high.

The speculative bubble has been taken out of the stock.

Oliver Herford

The bubble winked at me and said,'You'll miss me brother, when you're dead'.

The brokerage industry shutting down for one day seems to buy some time to deal with the year 2000 problem. But in the scheme of things, and how far away it is from us right now, it really doesn't buy them a whole lot. As a matter of fact, it could cause some trading bubbles and other things that could load their systems even more.

We've never seen this size of a housing bubble before, so in a sense we're in kind of a strange place right now.

the worldwide real estate bubble and its aftermath.

We don't see a bubble because the strength didn't come from speculative demand. It came from low 30-year mortgage rates, good demographics and other good fundamental factors that boosted demand. Even if demand declines, we won't see home sales falling off a cliff.

There's not a bubble in this market today.

Richard Davis

I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth.

We had the scare of our life a year ago, being on the bubble in February. We don't want to relive that experience.

The problem existed long before (the Internet bubble burst in March 2000).

The issue is durability, ... As an economist, all my instincts tell me just as the dot.com bubble had to burst, the small-market, new-stadium phenomenon had to burst.

I know someone who lives next door to what you would actually call a fairly modest house that just sold for $17 million. There are some very extreme housing price bubbles going on .

Andre Agassi

I knew it was on the bubble of getting really tough.

I'm quite optimistic that the year is going to be a good one and a strong rebound year on the heels of a number of Fed rate cuts. With the Internet bubble bursting, you're not going to have the daily crazy moves we had.

Alan Greenspan

The notion of a bubble bursting and the whole price level coming down ... as a national phenomenon is really quite unlikely,

Jonathan Miller

There was a negative swirl in the market; every pronouncement using the bubble term made buyers pause. We are not seeing prices fall; we are just seeing fewer sales.

After the Yahoo earnings release, people started talking about whether this signals a bubble starting to burst. I don't think so, but unreasonably inflated expectations can potentially create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Luis Gonzalez

I told those guys that you really don't see those yet on bubble gum cards on the backs. They count during the season. They can hit 20 or 30 during Spring Training and none of them count.

I like being the bubble team. If the NCAA committee will look at our last 10 games, I think we have a very good chance to get in.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

It's still fears over further disruptions in Nigeria, and the Iranian situation continues to bubble underneath the surface. Whatever OPEC says, the market is unlikely to pay much attention. They lost control of the market last year, and to cut production with oil near $70 would be irresponsible.

The big men and women of government live in a safe and luxurious bubble and have no idea what ordinary South Africans go through every day.

I've got a feeling we're on the bubble for double digits.

There's a thought that says Japan had a capacity bubble in the 1980s, we had one in the 1990s and now it's China's turn.

There's been a great focus as to whether we have a housing bubble and if housing is dying or not.

In the current cycle, there would seem to be a risk of a particularly large decline in the market, given that, by many conventional metrics, we experienced a speculative bubble of extraordinary proportions.

John Bolton

In the bubble on First Avenue, Volcker is just ignored. I talk about it, but it's a solitary conversation.

Dan Hawkins

I'd love to have a bubble . . . but you've got to deal with what you've got to deal with. That's life as we know it and we'll deal with it.