Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

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

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

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

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.