Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

English Educator

Robert J. Shiller

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.

American Economist

Ronald Reagan

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

American President

Ben Rhodes

Downturns in migration almost always prove temporary, as people adjust to changes in American enforcement. What doesn't change is the basic human impulse to pursue a better life in a place where they believe it's still possible.

American Public Servant

Janet Yellen

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.

Naval Ravikant

In an ideal world, you raise a lot of money and then there is a downturn, before you start investing so you get better deals. But it doesn't always happen that way.

Businessman

Hollis Stacy

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

American Athlete

John Hickenlooper

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

American Politician

Carly Fiorina

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

American Businesswoman

Martha McSally

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Use 'downturn' mainly to talk about economic issues or periods of reduced success.

Economic Focus

'Downturn' is often used in a business context to describe a decline in profits or markets.

Business Context

While common in economic context, 'downturn' can also describe decreases in non-economic areas.

Not Always Economy

 companies in the midst of an economic downturn and what I found is the most companies and schools follow a formula for success which is this if I work harder I'll be more successful and if I'm more successful then I'll be happier that undergirds most of our parenting styles are managing style is the way that we motivate our behavior and the problem is it's scientifically broken

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 working with schools and companies in the midst of an economic downturn. And I found that most companies and schools follow a formula for success, which is If I work harder, I'll be more successful. And if I'm more successful, then I'll be happier. That undergirds most of our parenting and managing styles, the way that we motivate our behavior.

 downturn in elephant poaching across this entire landscape. The women are now their leaders; I'm expendable. They're the ones taking this program forward. For so long, we've been blinded by our egos from seeing the most powerful force in nature and that's a woman's instinct to protect.

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 a long-lasting downturn with global ramifications that last years, or anything in between. Complicating matters further, there are countless variables that contribute to an economy’s health, making it difficult to pinpoint specific causes. So it helps to start with the big

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 beautiful birds in the world and this one is very relaxed it's just sitting right next to the car but I was saying earlier that there are predatory of insects and you can see that with that shape of beak they have that little downturn tip a little hook on it which

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 we find that it's not one particular generation that's doing better than the others, but the same individuals over time come to report relatively greater positive experience. Now you see this slight downturn at very advanced ages. And there is a slight downturn.

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 We needed a sustainable movement, not one that is susceptible to the fluctuating moods of a politician or the hint of an economic downturn. And it needed to happen everywhere; otherwise, every individual government would have this built-in excuse mechanism

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 come here to ask for a hands or whatever so that's how it always was and there's more young people are getting into it especially with downturn in the oil while workers were paid off have gone out and bought new moons a lot of people

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 dominated top-heavy economies diversified better had diversified better and were better able to withstand these downturns in world economic conditions what if Africa's civil society had been

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 And then of course in a downturn, it's one of the first programs to be cut. So no, CSR -- corporate social responsibility -- isn't the answer,

Downturn

A decrease or decline in something, like business activity or economy.