Evan Esar Quotes

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

What I'm most proud of is that I paid off all the debts of my household.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

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

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

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

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

Remember that credit is money.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

You don't need credit.

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.