Debt Quotes

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

The Bank is trying to kill me, but I shall kill it.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.

If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

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

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be a usurer to him, nor shall you lay upon him usury.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

The single biggest threat to our national security is our debt.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.