Quotes About Debt

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

I invested all my money in debt.

It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

We saw in Greece how dangerous it is if a country has a bigger and bigger debt, and I hope that we will not have a second Greece in our neighbouring country, Italy.

Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.

For Andrew Jackson, politics was very personal. He hated not just the federal debt. He hated debt at all.

Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on leverage during the commodities boom, now have tummies full of debt.

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

Unlike debentures, the 15.7 million dollars of participating preferred shares did not require repayment on a particular date. Effectively, International Match had shifted from a strict debt obligation to a more flexible equity obligation.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent;

while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably

Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

These latter sums, running up into three figures, he no longer regarded as debts. A debt was an obligation one intended to meet someday.

He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.