Asne Seierstad Quotes

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.

A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

Money often costs too much.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

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