Success Quote by Will Harvey

A businessman’s version of a deep breath: not a call to arms, but a call to zoom out. “In times like these” is the familiar drumbeat of crisis rhetoric - the phrase politicians and pundits use to make the present feel singular and urgent. Harvey’s twist is to puncture that inflation. By insisting there have always been “times like these,” he frames anxiety as a recurring market condition, not an unprecedented apocalypse.

The intent is stabilizing, but it’s not neutral. In business culture, panic is expensive: it freezes decision-making, spooks investors, and invites overcorrection. This line functions like ballast, a reminder that volatility is historical and survivable. It’s the language of risk management dressed up as stoic wisdom.

The subtext is double-edged. On one hand, it offers genuine comfort: you’re not alone, the world has been here before, and the story doesn’t end at the peak of the news cycle. On the other, it can quietly lower the moral temperature. If “times like these” are perennial, then outrage starts to look like naivete and systemic failure can be recast as natural weather. The sentence can soothe, but it can also anesthetize.

Context matters because the line’s power comes from repetition. The mirrored phrasing turns history into a refrain: crisis, normalization, repeat. It’s an argument against catastrophizing - and, depending on who wields it, a convenient rationale for patience, incrementalism, or simply staying the course.