Quotes About Debt

Gran Bretaña había aprendido, cuatro años después de su primera invasión, que para colonizar al Virreinato del Río de la Plata no hacían falta ni su escuadra ni sus soldados. Bastaba con dominar su comercio. Pocos años más tarde acentuaría su influencia a través del endeudamiento, para lo que contaría con la complicidad de quien fuera nuestro primer presidente. Estrategia de las grandes potencias que se perpetúa hasta hoy.

The escalation of home prices that had allowed refinancing to pay off more debt had stopped. With a decline in housing prices, overleveraged borrowers suddenly faced a mounting debt burden—and in the worst cases owed more than the house was worth.

The final payment for America's cheap food of the last century is still outstanding.

Where's my money? I'm very angry because I believe I am owed some money which you are preventing me from obtaining

consequence of the global economic misery from the pandemic of 2020 could be greater prevalence of fragile and failed states, which would create new security challenges that, at some point, would reach beyond their borders. Yet governments would be hampered in responding to domestic and international needs, whether around security or health or energy and climate, by the huge debt and fiscal armor they have assumed in battling to preserve their economies.

"Do not take a pair of millstones – not even the upper one – as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security."

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law."

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward – like the Koch brothers – to say, "You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!"

"I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.

To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal diminishment, an insult to nature and common sense.

And then Andy told him about Meikelberger's farm. Had Isaac ever thought of buying more land – say, a neighbor's farm? Well, if I did I've have to go in debt to buy it, and to farm it. It would be more time and help than I've got. And I'd lose my neighbor. You'd rather have your neighbor? We're supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves. We try. If you need them, it helps.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

But won't you be ashamed To count the passing year At its mere cost, your debt Inevitably paid? For every year is costly, As you know well. Nothing Is given that is not Taken, and nothing taken That was not first a gift.

I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

the fall of the mark wiped out the war debts and thus left Germany financially unencumbered for a new war.

We are sick and tired of living in debt and slavery,' the Rakalovsk peasants had their chairperson write. 'We want space and light.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

The U.S. national debt is $27 trillion.

The U.S. national debt is $27 trillion—$82,000 per citizen.

My brothers must be as tired of this as I, dragging love as a tally board behind us, marking off an endless but complex math of ego and one-upmanship and debt. But the men who came before us didn't teach us another way.