Glenda Jackson Quotes

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

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Pay to the last farthing!

When you show me the right contract, I'll sign the right contract.

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.

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

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

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

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.

I authorize no bargains and will be bound by none.

Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

Anytime you take someone's money, that puts enormous pressure. But I think if you want the most reward, you have to take the most risk.

If you don't uphold a contract, which is an agreement, then you've got nothing.

When you don't spend or invest in the future, you can't always get away with it.

I don't sign contracts on a whim.

I only sign one fight at a time.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

A bargain is a bargain.

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.