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Quotes About Debt

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.
~ David Platt
I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.
~ Kevin Drum
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.
~ Julius Nyerere
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
~ Ross Perot
The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
~ Earl Wilson
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
~ William Shakespeare
If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.
~ Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.
~ Mike Pence
An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.
~ Duncan Bannatyne
If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.
~ Artie Lange
Only morons start a business on a loan?
~ Mark Cuban
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
~ Melissa Bean
It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.
~ Milton Friedman
I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.
~ Dave Ramsey
If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.
~ Dave Ramsey
If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
~ Will Rogers
Slavery was in fact a legal punishment inflicted on those, for example, who could not pay their fines.
~ Peter Ackroyd
more than eight hundred thousand Americans file for personal bankruptcy every year.
~ Peter Lynch
Debt is saving in reverse. The more it builds up, the worse off you are.
~ Peter Lynch
Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.
~ Peter McWilliams
finances, n. You wanted to keep the list on the refrigerator. No, I said. That's too public. What I meant was: Aren't you embarrassed by how much you owe me?
~ David Levithan
Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on
~ Dean Cavanagh