Debt Quotes
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
J. C. Ryle -
The total amount of debt that foreigners have bought this year is $66 billion, which is about the amount of the total federal deficit during the same period of time. So in other words, we benefit by basically eliminating the burden of the debt on domestic capital markets.
Bruce Bartlett
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It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.
Nicola Sturgeon -
Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.
David Stockman -
In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.
G. Edward Griffin -
Bubbles are far more dangerous when they are fueled by debt, as in the case of the global housing price explosion of the early 2000s.
Carmen Reinhart -
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
George Gilder -
Last Words of Advice: If you pay your taxes and don't get into debt and go to bed early and never answer the telephone, no harm can befall you.
Charles Issawi
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The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
Paul Krugman -
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.
Alan M. Taylor -
The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
Terence McKenna -
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice -
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
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.
William Shakespeare
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Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.
Craig Fugate -
“Ken Gordon has asked me to serve as advisor to their finance committee. The West Indies Cricket Board, as everybody knows, has a lot of debt, over $20 million in debt and they need to deal with that.”
Allen Stanford -
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Ballance -
We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
Hillary Clinton -
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
Harry Lloyd -
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.
Astra Taylor -
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
Seneca the Younger -
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
Seneca the Younger