Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Buying a home is exciting, but it's also a big financial commitment.

People go into debt when they judge it beneficial to borrow money against their future earnings. Few can afford to buy a house outright, but many consider it worthwhile to take out a loan, which they will service and pay off over time, for the immediate privilege of living and investing in a house.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

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

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.