Debt Quotes · Page 7

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

— Beppe Grillo

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

— Ernie Banks

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

— Alexander Hamilton

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.

— Francois Hollande

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

— Benjamin Franklin

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

— Arthur Twining Hadley

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

— Benjamin Franklin

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

— John Barrymore

Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

— Francois Rabelais

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

— Dan Benishek

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

— Seneca the Younger

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

— Joseph Stiglitz

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

— Benjamin Franklin

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

— Suze Orman

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Stocks always go down much faster than they go up. That's why it's called a crash. People who put their money into…

— Michael Hudson

Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is…

— George Soros

A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to…

— William Jennings Bryan

What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of…

— Dan Ariely

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper…

— Ron Fournier

If President Obama is re-elected, he will continue to spend more money than we take in and to expand a debt that's…

— Kim Reynolds

We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day -…

— Ben Stein

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We…

— Calvin Coolidge

Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option.…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always…

— Henry David Thoreau

A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US;…

— Catherine Austin Fitts

Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want…

— Walter E. Williams

Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that…

— Shane Claiborne

All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we…

— Robert D. Hales

“Haiku We sacrifice health enslaving ourselves, working to pay off our debt.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

— Anonymous

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

— Dave Ramsey

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

— Julia McNair Wright

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

— Stephenie Meyer

Borrow money from your boss and be indebted . He will never fire you.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA