Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

David Graeber

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

David Graeber

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

David Graeber

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Brunello Cucinelli

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Camilo Jose Cela

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

When you take on debt, you increase your risk, but you also increase your return,

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,

Terry Teachout

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

Jim Cooper

When we don't save, we can't even lend money to our government. Today, more than 40% of our huge national debt is owned by foreign countries.

Benjamin Franklin

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Benjamin Franklin

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

Benjamin Franklin

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

Ted Forrest

We refuse to go into foolish debt to pay for it.

like I'm going to be in debt now for the rest of my life.

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed?

Ted Cruz

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

Bob Corker

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

Eugene Fama

Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.

Billie Jean King

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

Daniel Hannan

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Dan Ariely

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

Barbara Corcoran

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

This program is a great opportunity for students as well as parents to be educated on education debt. We are here to help students and parents figure everything out.

We've seen a sea change, a real shift over the past generation from a system where less than half of students left with debt and now two-thirds leave with debt. Now, it's become the norm to leave with debt -- and often with a lot of debt.

Jeffrey Sachs

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

Dave Ramsey

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

Dave Ramsey

Debt is normal. Be weird.

So if the effective interest rate on Philippines government debt goes up, it just takes more of their revenues to service their debts, so these are issues that really do need to be addressed." ()

John C. Calhoun

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?