“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter II, The Short Period, p. 23
“Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.”
Source: The God of the Labyrinth (1970), p. 288
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