Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

I'm the king of debt.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Get rid of debt now.

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.