Muddling Quotes

We've seen regular steady declines week in and week out [in the four-week moving average], with the exception of this week. This probably speaks of softness in labor market that continues as a result of the recession. We're sort of muddling towards a tepid recovery. - Jeffrey Wenger

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. - Henry Cabot Lodge

The market is muddling around in the ranges it's been trading in for the last seven days. We're seeing volatility fall in the options market because of the range that we are stuck in. - Jeff Gladstein

The employment number that came out last Friday is consistent with a muddling economy. It's a fait accompli that the Fed will go up just a quarter point. - Jeffrey Saut

The Congress is a vast machine sans direction. There is a driver and a pilot but the direction of the vehicle is unclear. They are muddling along. - Mahesh Rangarajan

So there's nothing to offset the economic news and stocks are muddling along. Until we get some surety about the economy or corporate earnings, we'll continue to have this drifting, dismal kind of day. - Larry Wachtel

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. - Anna Quindlen

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up. - Kelly Clarkson

Compared to the United States... there is no clear message from the CDU about an individualist, market-oriented economic policy. The program is piecemeal. It's not a vision. It's a sort of muddling through. These are programs that may help give some economic benefits, but it's definitely not something that you could call a conclusive economic program. - Thomas Straubhaar

All we did was picking up the pieces and muddling through, doing too little too late. - Jan Pronk