Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. — Joey Lauren Adams Copy Share Image
true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors. — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I'm finally getting paid, which I know… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners,… — Akira Mori Copy Share Image
Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
“I did note this, and set it down as yet one more of life’s injustices: that the man who has been wealthy… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You really don't need to hire a debt settlement company to negotiate with your creditors. — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You'll get much better results by being upfront, answering creditors calls, and responding to their letters. Delaying the inevitable only digs a… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by… — Benjamin Hawkins Copy Share Image
Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests,… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one… — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among… — John Turner Copy Share Image
Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image