Debt Quotes - Page 9

The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

Of course I'm troubled by huge consumer debt levels - we've pushed consumer credit very hard in the US. Eventually, if it keeps growing, it will stop growing. As Herb Stein said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." When it stops, it may be unpleasant. Other than Herb Stein's quote, I have no comment. But the things that trouble you are troubling me.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

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

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Germany will always do the minimum to preserve the euro. Doing the minimum, though, will perpetuate the situation where the debtor countries in Europe have to pay tremendous premiums to refinance their debt. The result will be a Europe in which Germany is seen as an imperial power that will not be loved and admired by the rest of Europe - but hated and resisted, because it will perceived as an oppressive power.

Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.