William Penn Quotes

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

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

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

... maybe we can all agree on one lesson from the Greek crisis, namely that, to maintain a friendship, you should lend only as much money as you are ready to give away anyway.

You wait till the money is there before you give it back.

Never ask for small loans.

To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.