Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

..[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt...

George Osborne

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

George Osborne

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Harvey Weinstein

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.

George Eliot

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Pete Doherty

I'm 300 grand in debt. Why do you think I'm going out with Kate Moss?

Government debt sold off too much. Yields are high enough to lure investors. Yields already reflect speculation that a rate increase may come in the fourth quarter of 2006.

Martin Luther

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

Kent Conrad

All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt,

The market's weak without much attraction. We didn't get the news about the debt swap that everybody was waiting for.

The market is pricing in a policy shift, including a rate hike some time later this year, as the economy is showing signs of a pick-up. Shorter debt may remain under pressure.

The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (economic) perspective.

James Goldsmith

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

James Grant

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

James Grant

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

George Gilder

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Jon Foreman

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

The healthcare business, on its own, would probably be worth in the mid-teens -- $14 to $16 a share depending on how much debt they put into the company. For the sum of the parts, I'd put the value at $36 to $38 a share.

The higher return might well be in reducing this debt as quickly as prudent.

The industry should seek for long-term financing for its investments as opposed to short-term debt.

Pat Paulsen

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

The IMF realized that the world was watching and they couldn't deny millions of people the promised debt cancellation.

The IMF realized that the world was watching, and they couldn't deny millions of people the promised debt cancellation.

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) was looking for domestic debt at year-end 2005 to be worth 19.6 percent of GDP. That can now be revised down to about 16 percent.

The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

The Germans have a different consumption mentality: They don't get into debt.

The JGB market got some lift from losses in stock prices and from index-trackers (funds) stepping in to purchase government debt paper.

Tony Blair

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

Robert A. Heinlein

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

John Updike

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.