Andrew Jackson Quotes

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

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

Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.

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

Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

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

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

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

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

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

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

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.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

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

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

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

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.