Downward Quotes

You've got to break out of this downward trend to get higher. Sometimes, in order to do that, you've got to sell off a lot more first. We're just dribbling right now, but there's the potential to go a lot lower. - Frank Gretz

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time. - Daryn Kagan

You could still see some downward price moves if the Iranian situation just fades from view. If it fades from the headlines you could see oil prices move down several dollars. - Jason Schenker

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP growth have increased substantially, and the chances of a full-fledged recession just went up -- perhaps approaching 50-50. Job losses cut directly into the spending of the newly unemployed, and indirectly tend to have a very real impact on the confidence of those who are still working. If demand falls, firms will lay off more employees, and the downward spiral could put us over the edge into a bona fide recession before the Fed's actions can take effect. - Bill Cheney

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. - Henry David Thoreau

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. - Heather Mills

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? - Bible

While one should never draw definite conclusions from any one quarter's results, the downward trend in short term performance over the last six months will probably continue through the end of 2000 as the effects of public market volatility makes its way through to the private markets. - Jesse Reyes

When you see the fan going, it's tilted downward so it'll pull some of the air down and distribute it through the orchard and hopefully increase the temp a couple degrees. Sometimes a couple degrees is all the difference in the world between saving and losing some of the crops. - Jim Kline

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward. - John Hull