Will Carleton Quotes

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

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.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

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.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from—so it must be with a government.

Between debt and taxes Americans had usually chosen debt.

We are broke—bankrupt—really bankrupt!

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

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

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn't investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months.

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

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

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

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.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.