You really don't need to hire a debt settlement company to negotiate with your creditors. — Jean Chatzky 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
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency,… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or… — Jonathan Swift 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
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
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
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
After explaining why you're in trouble, ask the creditor if the company would be willing to accept a smaller amount. Start negotiations… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a… — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image
We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best… — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image
When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty… — Bartholomew Roberts Copy Share Image
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and… — Gary H. Stern Copy Share Image
When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They… — Richard Mourdock Copy Share Image
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
“worse was dealing with creditors who did not really want their money back. Negotiating with them, trying to reason with them, was… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image