Debt Quotes · Page 37

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much…

— Dan Ariely

I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and…

— Lindsey Graham

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to…

— Anonymous

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York…

— Donald Trump

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the…

— Stephen Harper

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And…

— William Cowper

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself…

— James Chanos

When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion…

— Thomas Malthus

The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany…

— George Soros

We should get young people to be more concerned about our debt and point out to them that promising them more all…

— Dan Crenshaw

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation…

— Warren Buffett

I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for…

— Bernie Sanders

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of…

— Henry Hazlitt

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown,…

— Iain Duncan Smith

The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states…

— Ludwig von Mises

“When we do those things, we’re actually filling a void in our lives with debt. It’s a slow but sure self-destructive process,…

— Celso Cukierkorn

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with…

— Anonymous

His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an…

— Bruce Morton

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never…

— Alexandre Dumas

What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

America owes a debt of gratitude to all service members who have fought to preserve the freedoms we all know and cherish…

— Mike Parson

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

— Ben Bernanke

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

— Kevin Smith

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young…

— Elizabeth Warren

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

— Babatunde Fashola

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to…

— George Osborne

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

— Wendell Phillips

My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.

— Anonymous

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

— Terri Sewell

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes.…

— Stephen L. Richards

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I…

— Jeffrey Tate

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis…

— Chanda Kochhar

The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

— Carmen Reinhart