Debt Quotes

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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that… — Warren Buffett
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the… — Thomas A. Edison
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported… — Alan Greenspan
The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business. — Erskine Bowles
Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset. — Paul Krugman
The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time. — Paul Krugman
At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding. — Peter Schiff
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions… — Peter Schiff
At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no… — Bernie Sanders
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to… — Rob Bell
God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us… — Tullian Tchividjian
Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is. — J. P. Morgan
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt. — John M. Ford
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor
If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi economy, then the… — Steve Keen
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption… — Peter Thiel
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a… — Peter Thiel
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to… — Carter Glass
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the… — H.G. Wells
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. — Tom Vilsack
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt. — Ben Bernanke
Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial. — Jose Manuel Barroso
War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. Â There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. Â The… — Jacque Fresco
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais

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