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Quotes About Bankrupt

It was a distinction, my dear Dorian — a great distinction. Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
~ James Joyce
needed million-franc credit line at the Bank of France, required to keep the business up and running. As Hans Elmiger explained to the commandant of Paris, surely Adolf Hitler would be unhappy if the hotel were to go bankrupt and could not host dignitaries and Nazi celebrities as Berlin ordered.
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
We bought the UFC when not only was it a bankrupt company that was going under, it had a horrible stigma attached to it. This thing was so bad it was not allowed on pay-per-view.
~ Dana White
Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
~ Barry Diller
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Trump divides his time between working some kind of 'King Ralph' angle, and claiming that he's going to make the U.S. great again by using his business experience. We can only assume that means repeatedly declaring it bankrupt, then changing its name so he can just shake off all the debt.
~ Frankie Boyle
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
~ Bradley Whitford
The laboratory where we stored all our negatives went bankrupt overnight following the Asian economic crisis in 1997. So, on short notice, we had to retrieve all the materials in the middle of the night before the debtor-receiver took over the laboratory the next morning.
~ Wong Kar-wai
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
~ Honore de Balzac
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
~ Elizabeth Diller
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
~ Will Rogers
The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.
~ Norman Finkelstein
the world on all sides is bankrupt and that life is a business that does not cover the costs.
~ Unknown
And if I spend resources I don't have, I will eventually bankrupt myself.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If we pay attention to foolish things or things that fuel foolishness in us, we will bankrupt our perspective. And we will be more likely to fall prey to Satan's schemes.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and ontrolled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
They had power and security, and were making millions. But on an emotional and spiritual level, many seemed bankrupt.
~ Marie Forleo
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!
~ Yanis Varoufakis
Obama added, ". . . So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
~ Mark R. Levin
The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.
~ Jimmy Carr
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
~ Michael Bloomberg
The cases they brought could consume their critics' lives, and threaten on occasion to bankrupt them, but they did not consume the lives of the oligarchs. They could hand the job of imposing retribution to their lawyers and reputation managers, and cover the costs of litigation from their loose change.
~ Nick Cohen
The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so.
~ Unknown