Debt Quotes - Page 15

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

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.

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

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

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

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

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.