John Corabi Quotes

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

I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever.

After the campaign we shall place a list of those who have not paid in the hands of the head of the department you are in.

Pay to the last farthing!

I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

Being on tour is a giggle.

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

It's a bit embarrassing to be a deadbeat .... The United States should not be a deadbeat.

I don't know how many bands I saw who would try to wreck a hotel room, but I never wrecked a hotel room in my life! If I'm gonna sit there and throw a TV out the window... if it's a good TV, maybe I should just take it home.

There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.

One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.

I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.

I have a bet with my mom that involves a little money, and if I have too many turnovers, she gets in my pocket. I'm afraid of that for sure.

I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.