Rosecrans Baldwin Quotes

Do you have an emergency fund? If not, build one - aim for three months of expenses to start, then boost it to six. It will ease your anxiety and get you out of a potential jam.

Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

All the merchants may break, but the Bank of the United States will not break.

Without economic security, we cannot have national security.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

I don't think it's the end of the world even if we have a recession. We'll pull back out of it again. No big deal.

Not having a country with a financial crisis in the year is a pretty big deal to me. But something that didn’t happen is not something that people will focus on.

it is easier … to stave off adversity than to preserve prosperity.

There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.