George Soros Quotes

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

We need to have a goal of becoming debt-free as soon as possible.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.

I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

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

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Get rid of debt now.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

The answer to too much debt is not more debt; it is less debt.

There are but two ways of paying debt—increase of industry in raising income. increase of thrift in laying out.