Debt Quotes - Page 12

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

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.

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

He that dies pays all debts.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.