Quotes About Debt

Ingenious, really: you pour junk-raised cash into a hostile takeover and sell the debt to your savings and loan, which the public ultimately must bail out. Then you mortgage the company to the hilt to pay off the funny money, loot the pension fund, run through the reserves, sell off everything of value, and dispose of the remaining bankrupt husk for whatever you can get. Magic! Loot that pays you extra to plunder it.

My father's ideas about debt were vague, cosmic. He figured if you had money and somebody needed some, you gave it to him, at least if the guy was all right and would do the same for you. Later on, if you needed it and he had it you could call on him. In the meantime, if you didn't need it, you left him alone.

The funnies call it the syndicate. The goons and hustlers call it the Outfit. You call it the organization. I hope you people have fun with your words. But I don't care if you call yourselves the Red Cross, you owe me forty-five thousand dollars and you'll pay me back whether you like it or not.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. You're a genius, I (Percy) told Annabeth.

There's a saying: If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

Existe um ditado que diz: se você deve 100 dólares, está na palma da mão do banco; mas, se deve um milhão, é o banco que está na palma da sua mão.

si debes cien dólares, el banco te tiene en su poder; pero si debes un millón, eres tú quien tienes en tu poder al banco.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

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.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

Pero algo muy noble en la defensa del mundo indígena y de los secretos del territorio fue sacrificado allí, una deuda de respeto y de dignidad con los pueblos nativos quedó pendiente mucho tiempo en Colombia, y sigue siendo uno de los desafíos de nuestra incorporación en la modernidad.

The Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt.

Therefore from the storehouse of His Passion I borrow the price of my debt,

He that dies pays all his debts.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

He that dies pays all debts.

Let him look to his bond.

The key architects of the nation's economic policy in the Clinton era (Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers) allowed the build-up of forces that would eventually blow the housing and banking industries sky-high. These forces were then multiplied by the reckless fiscal policy of the Bush Administration that enlarged the size of the national debt and set the stage for an economic train wreck.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude