Quotes About Debt

the words lex monetae are really just a polite Latin way of saying, "Suck it, creditors.

In 1917, John D. Rockefeller could have paid off the whole US public debt on his own. Today, Bill Gates's entire fortune would barely cover two months' interest.

The Bible speaks negatively of all debt.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Thy William went willing, Kit. Even though thou didst retrieve him-mad poets, the both of you-the debt is paid for seven times seven years.

I'm not going to like you," I told her. "Your friends killed my friends. There's no payback for a debt as big as the one you owe me.

If once I loved you, greater is your debt; For certain 'tis you deserved it not, And undeserved love we soon forget...

I must somehow settle my debt to the world, which I have loved, disregarding what I have learned of its Master's fastidious wastefulness.

the United States, led by Wall Street, was becoming entangled financially in the fate of the Entente. Defeat of France, Britain, and Russia could mean their default on their debts; default by the Entente would almost certainly mean bankruptcy for America's leading investment firms, not to mention the corporations that depended on the growing transatlantic business between the United States, the Allies, and their chief entrepôt, the port of London.

Lenin's urging, had repudiated the entirety of Russia's foreign debt, from both the war and before the war: almost nine billion dollars

The demands of justice must be met; the requirements of God's holiness must be satisfied; the awful debt we incurred must be paid. And on the Cross this was done; done by none less than the Son of God; done perfectly; done once for all. "It is finished.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Mas no lo imagino haciendo magia negra en la trastienda. Ni siquiera fue masón, como él mismo confiesa en El siglo de Luis XV... Tenía deudas, los editores y los acreedores lo acosaban demasiado para andar perdiendo el tiempo.

A smart person never ever buys a house or anything on any financial loan.

Unless, of course, one chose to join the increasing numbers who had decided they were so deep in despair that there was nothing worse to fear in life. These were men who had finally, and so early, so surprisingly early seen enough of something in their own ives and in the lives around them to convince them of the final futility of efforts of efforts to break the mean monthly cycle of debt and borrowing, borrowing and debt.

This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

First, pay off your high-interest-rate debt. If you have student loan debt - that's low interest rate; that has a tax benefit - you can leave that out. A mortgage can be an OK one. Credit card debt is poison. That needs to be paid off right away.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.

Your FICO score is an "I love debt" score. You're going to pay a bazillion dollars in interest to keep your FICO score up in order to have lower homeowner's and car insurance rates.