Bankruptcy Risk Quotes

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.

Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.

All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

When you're levered 9 to 1, it'd be unreal for a bank to go down.

I'm talking about France and Germany and Italy and Spain - new friend Germany - and I love that story, how they lead the world in some things that the world needs leadership in. Amongst them we're the only ones without national healthcare. Can't go to a hospital and not worry about falling into bankruptcy. They go to university free. We're killing our students with debt. That scares me.

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

For Maersk Line, it is never great to compete with somebody who, by definition, can't go bankrupt.

This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country.

We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.

For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.