Suze Orman Quotes

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

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

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

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.

Pay to the last farthing!

He that will be surety, shall pay.

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.

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.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

Credit is an 'I love debt' score.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

In England everyone puts a lot of pressure on you when you have cost a lot of money.

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

I'm the king of debt.

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.

Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

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

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.