Best 772 quotes in «debt quotes» category

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

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

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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 causes trouble.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

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 in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.

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

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it.

I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

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

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.