Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

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.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

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

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.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of 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.

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

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.

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

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Get rid of debt now.

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society.

To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts.

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.

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

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.