Best 772 quotes in «debt quotes» category

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

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

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Ambition's debt is paid.

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

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

A public debt is a public curse.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

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 higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

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.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

As well as, we know, as a real estate developer, [Donald Trump] has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

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

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.