Debt Quotes · Page 11

It is better to be a lender than a spender.

— Jim Rohn

“When you run out of money — stop buying.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.

— Richard Cordray

Debt is born when you want to spend money before you have earned it.

— Vikrant Parsai

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

— Beppe Grillo

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

— Simone Weil

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

— Ted Yoho

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

— James Surowiecki

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

— Oscar Wilde

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

— Michael N. Castle

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England

— Anonymous

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the…

— Evangelos Venizelos

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

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

— Eoin Colfer

When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why!…

— Francis Daniels Moore

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has distorted Treasury markets by borrowing more than $1 trillion in more-expensive shorter-term debt compared with historical norms.…

— Scott Bessent

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So…

— William Shatner

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of…

— Cynthia Lummis

“She tries to envision a life without the debt, but can’t string the thoughts together in the right order. The debt is…

— Alex Livingston

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

When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card…

— Jean Chatzky

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains -…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on…

— John Ensign

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing…

— Margaret Atwood

[Young people] can't do much with [student debt] other than try to figure out how to pay it down. They can't take…

— Hillary Clinton

“Tally sticks were quite explicitly IOUs: both parties to a transaction would take a hazelwood twig, notch it to indicate the amount…

— David Graeber

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for…

— Elena Kagan

People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan…

— Hillary Clinton

We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited…

— Donald Trump

The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book…

— Kelly McEvers

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

— Francis Bacon

Our ballooning national debt is already an economic and security crisis.

— Katie Britt

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

— Susan George

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

— Leonard Orr

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

— Daniel Hannan

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

— Alexander Hamilton

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

— Julia Ward Howe