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Quotes About Bankruptcy

I can tell you what happens to countries that go bankrupt. I've been to Argentina. I'm familiar with the history of Mexico and Great Britain. We'll see the same things here shortly: inflation, huge tax increases, capital flight and, eventually, capital controls.
~ Porter Stansberry
Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.
~ Roger Ver
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
~ Russ Feingold
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.
~ Ruben Hinojosa
American, Swiss, and Japanese taxpayers are pretty honest. So are most of the other Western European democracies. Greece, Spain, and Italy are not. In fact, the level of tax evasion in Greece is such that the country's deficit—which is so large that Greece has teetered on the brink of outright bankruptcy for years—would all but disappear if Greek citizens obeyed the law and paid what they owed.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The duality which you divine is the despair, the bankruptcy of logic and philosophy; it is the illusion which holds the human planetary system together.
~ Anais Nin
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
~ John Conyers
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
~ John Dryden
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.
~ Cenk Uygur
Organizations in the private sector go bankrupt , but often not its owner.
~ Anuj Somany
There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.
~ Roger Goodell
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
~ David Dinkins
In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
~ Felix Rohatyn
It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.
~ Carol Loomis
Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.
~ Jan Schakowsky
A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.
~ John Stossel
the domination system, understood as something much larger than the Roman governor and the temple aristocracy, is responsible for the death of Jesus. In words attributed to Paul, God through Jesus "disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in the cross."17 The domination system killed Jesus and thereby disclosed its moral bankruptcy and ultimate defeat.
~ Marcus J. Borg
My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?
~ Mike Tyson
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.
~ Arthur Herman
Eugenicists generally agreed that Europe's hereditary ruling class was as much a product of genetic bankruptcy as the mentally retarded, or "mongoloid idiots"—or the Irish.
~ Arthur Herman
By the time most people file for bankruptcy, their credit is already trashed, they have a high debt-to-income ratio - a key indicator lenders look at - and they've likely defaulted on more than a few accounts.
~ Jean Chatzky
We'd never be talking about Senator McGrath saying anything about state and local governments should be going bankrupt. I'd never even think about it.
~ Amy McGrath
I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.
~ Wolfgang Schauble