Beppe Grillo Quotes

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

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

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

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

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

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

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

I'm the king of debt.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

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

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.

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.

There was a time (not so long ago historically) when people were put in jail for owing money. Now we not only don’t punish them, but we make it easier and easier for them to slide out of their old debts, and start getting into new ones.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

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