Lisa Madigan Quotes

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.

Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.

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

Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.

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

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

I was so deep in red ink coming out of ECW that I had to make a good solid living just to get my nose above the water line because of ECW.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

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

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

Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

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

We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.