Quotes About Debt

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

Better to live in 1 BHK home or a small room as a tenant than to stay in 2-3 BHK house or a big bungalow purchased on a long-term loan and paying its hefty EMI payment.

Most people are not supporting the rally or social networking post of the person at the powerful position but only unwillingly repaying the debt for the undue favour received from him/her often.

The people who appear to be its staunch supporters are most likely to be just repaying the debt of undue favours received from a party or its person.

Poverty without debt is independence.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president - has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history.

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.

Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.