James Howell Quotes

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

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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.

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

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

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.

People paid their 3 percent a month interest without considering it excessive.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

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.

Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

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.

I don't get paid if my clients don't get better by a certain time period. And sure, I have not been paid before. We all fail sometimes; it's okay.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

I'd decided that the day I paid off all my debts, I would get married. Exactly two months later, I got hitched.

I don't owe nobody nothing.