Jean Chatzky Quotes

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.

Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

I have huge debts, and know of no other way to resolve them than to re-enter the slave trade.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

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

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Almost half of the bankruptcies in the United States are connected to an illness in the family, whether people had health insurance or not. Middle-class Americans, who had the misfortune of either experiencing a medical emergency themselves or watching a family member suffer, were then forced to face the daunting task of pulling themselves out of debt. Bankruptcy law has allowed them to start over. It has given hope

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

I'm the king of debt.

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

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

The most troubling loan we had was actually to the 'Octomom'. That was a terrible situation, and we worked very, very hard to move her to another home that they could afford.

I don't think a bankruptcy is a good thing.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

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.