Quotes About Debt

If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

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

I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt.

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.

Money is the only thing you can use even if you don't have any. ... There's always a credit card.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !

Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

Don't take on more student loans than your future-self can handle.

Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem.

Money is the poor people's credit card.

When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes I'll get another lawyer."

I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.