Quotes About Debt

Frank wanted to have it both ways: to be heavily indebted to his brothers yet operate free of their control.

Instead of chiding him, John steadily advanced more money in 1884, retired his debts, provided income for his family, and rallied his bruised spirits, saying, "Keep a stiff upper lip, clean up as you go, and the skies will brighten by and bye.

He offered to pay Corrigan $168 or $169 per share for his 2,500 shares of Standard Oil, which would yield enough to retire his $400,000 in debt.

Hawkins' mission was to instill Euro-American values and practices in Indigenous peoples - including the profit motive, privatization of property, debt, accumulation of wealthy by a few, and slavery - allowing settlers to gain the land and assimilate the Muskogees.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don't pay them.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

On n'est jamais quitte envers ceux qui nous ont obligés, dit Dantès, car lorsqu'on ne leur doit plus l'argent, on leur doit la reconnaissance.

Nu suntem niciodat? chit cu cei fa?? de care avem obliga?ii...,c?ci, dac? nu le mai dator?m bani, le dator?m totu?i recuno?tin??.

Paid the last debt of nature

Je sais que le monde est un salon dont il faut sortir poliment et honnêtement, c'est-à-dire en saluant et en payant ses dettes de jeu.

Athos en el caballo que debía a su mujer, Aramis en el caballo que debía a su amante, Porthos en el caballo que debía a su procuradora, y D'Artagnan en el caballo que debía a su buena fortuna, la mejor de las amantes.

After all, it is quite normal for us to owe a debt of gratitude to our parents and grandparents (or the people standing in for them), even if the treatment we experienced at their hands was sheer unadulterated torture. This is an integral part of morality, as we understand it. But it is a species of morality that consigns our genuine feelings and our own personal truth to an unmarked grave.

Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you would have written a cheque or handed over your credit card, instead of feeling like you're somehow missing out, think, 'Isn't this marvellous! I don't have to incur any new debts.

Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Undertakers were great ones for persuading grieving folk to spend money they didn't have. That way, debt could follow you even into the Land of the Dead.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed. W

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.