Charles Oakley Quotes

To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.

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.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

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.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

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.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

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

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel.

Borrowed money, even when owing to a nation by another nation, should be repaid. They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it.

You wait till the money is there before you give it back.

Pay to the last farthing!

The reason we vote on the debt ceiling is to pay for past spending. It has nothing to do with what we are going to spend. What you are really saying is “I’m sorry, I am so mad that I don’t want to pay my past debts.”

I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its debt.

We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.

I firmly believe that the U.S. has to honor its debt.