Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Lucas Papademos

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

The market is pricing in a policy shift, including a rate hike some time later this year, as the economy is showing signs of a pick-up. Shorter debt may remain under pressure.

The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (economic) perspective.

Hamish Linklater

I invested all my money in debt.

John M. Ford

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

Citations are an acknowledgement of intellectual debt. Web of Science lets researchers instantly recognize works that are well regarded by their peers. That way, they know they are basing their work on quality research.

Phil Angelides

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

Evan Esar

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

Eoin Colfer

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

Jeff Galloway

If you run the same stride going up hill, you have to work harder. Studies have shown that as runners get faster, their stride length shortens. So quicker turnover is the key here. Paradoxically, a longer stride takes more energy, so you'll get into oxygen debt early.

In addition, they reduced debt heavily last year which makes them more flexible,

Friedrich Nietzsche

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

J. C. Ryle

If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.

Gwen Ifill

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Frank Zappa

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity

It puts you in a precarious spot where you have to worry about further losses pushing you into situation where you wouldn't meet the debt covenants.

It's useful to remember where we were in 2003 with liberation. In 2003, Iraq had the highest debt ... as a share of gross domestic product in the world. And today about two-thirds of that debt has been written off as a result of the support by the international community.

In particular, sustained efforts to strengthen the public finances have contributed to improved macroeconomic stability and robust growth. Zambia's external position has strengthened in recent years and debt relief has greatly reduced Zambia's external debt burden.

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

Rand Paul

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

Rand Paul

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

P. T. Barnum

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Mark Zandi

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

Paul Ryan

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

Paul Ryan

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Murray Rothbard

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

The healthcare business, on its own, would probably be worth in the mid-teens -- $14 to $16 a share depending on how much debt they put into the company. For the sum of the parts, I'd put the value at $36 to $38 a share.

The higher return might well be in reducing this debt as quickly as prudent.