George Washington Quotes

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

We have to make debt evil.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

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

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

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

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

The borrower runs in his own debt.