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Quotes About Debt

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.
~ Jamie Dimon
If you're filing bankruptcy, you will likely want to hire an attorney. But for debt settlement, a company is sufficient, or as I said, you can often do the legwork on your own.
~ Jean Chatzky
I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!
~ Margaret Atwood
If you'll have enough saved and nobody has to take on debt and you want to retire, shoot go for it.
~ Michelle Singletary
I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.
~ Patty Murray
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
~ Ezra Pound
Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
~ Frank Knox
Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
~ Susan George
God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.
~ Susan Vreeland
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.
~ Suzanne Collins
Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.
~ Suzanne Collins
Please, Coriolanus, I would never forget the favor.
~ Suzanne Collins
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people.
~ Suzanne Collins
Apparently, Peeta Mellark's information was sound and we owe him a great debt of gratitude.
~ Suzanne Collins
Él siempre estaría en deuda con Lucy Gray. Ella tenía derecho a exigirle lo que quisiera.
~ Suzanne Collins
it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.
~ Suzanne Collins
Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.
~ Suze Orman
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
~ Suze Orman
The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.
~ Suze Orman
Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.
~ Suze Orman