Stock Market Crash Quotes:

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

- Ron Chernow

topic: People, Generations, Crash, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash

When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real.

- Dominic Balli

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Dream, Real, People, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

- Jackie Mason

topic: Father, Successful, Window, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

- George Will

topic: Summer, Blue, America, Market Crash, Market Timing

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

- Ben Bernanke

topic: Bankers, Economics, Crash, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

- Pola Negri

topic: Loss, People, Financial, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Eye, Sea, Dollars, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash

From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.

- Anita Loos

source: Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

topic: Girl, Sex, Home, Market Crash, Stock Market Crash