Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Forrest

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

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

Paul Krugman

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

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.

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.

Jane Bryant Quinn

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

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.

Charles Bass

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

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.

Bono

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

Edmund Burke

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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.

We have a promise not to let our debt grow faster than our economy, ... I'm concerned. I'm taking action.

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.

Barbara Corcoran

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

There are plenty of young families who don't want to go into debt for five to seven years to have a safe, functional automobile.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

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.

Cameron Mackintosh

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

What is a problem is when you have no particular plan to pay off the debt.

What with the referendum were they truthful about? The taxes people had to pay? No. The finances? No. How much debt we had? No. How much did they get right?

What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.

Gold should be well-positioned if the U.S. economy slows sharply, given debt and dual-deficit strains that would likely emerge,

I think you will find we will have to repay the debt and before the election next year a special rate will have been imposed.

Sam Brownback

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.