Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

I'm the king of debt.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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.

Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.