Debt Quotations | Page 3

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corporation or a government, it can be even more of a drag - on economic growth and job creation.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

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

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

We believe that our stock remains significantly undervalued in the market and we continue to have confidence in the long-term value of our organization. Our plans to pay down $100 million of debt in 2006 remain unchanged.

We believe that most of the issues impacting Lucent's September quarter results are company specific. Even increasing bad debt reserves because of emerging service provider credit concerns reflects Lucent's aggressive policy towards providing vendor financing.

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

We're in a period when capital spending has slowed to a waltz, corporate profitability is hardly visible, and balance sheets are just inundated with debt ? that's not a comfortable picture. Each day is a new adventure in the market. There's lots of money on the sidelines but no willingness to commit.

Where the average debt levels are really increasing are for children of more-affluent families. Children of affluent families are now almost as likely to borrow as children of less-affluent families.

When you take on debt, you increase your risk, but you also increase your return,

We appreciate them sending the president a clean debt-limit extension.

If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

Whether we like it or not, all three of the rating agencies have a view of overlapping debt. They are going to have that when they calculate our debt.

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

When we don't save, we can't even lend money to our government. Today, more than 40% of our huge national debt is owned by foreign countries.

.We got to the point of identifying the value of the debt in 2003/2004, entered into four-way discussions - Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Justice, the university and the law school - to agree on the debt. The Ministry of Finance then proposed a payment plan to clear the debt and that's the plan we are working with.

What makes a good leverage financier? One who can effectively control debts and do not allow the debts to control him...

What's interesting here is that you can see how the cost of operations continues to rise and debt obligations continue to rise, while capital improvements have gone down. Money has just not been available for those types of services.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

We refuse to go into foolish debt to pay for it.

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

With this accounting treatment, aimed at disposing bad debt, we are now bracing for a turnaround.

would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add 5 trillion dollars to our national debt and make the system weaker in the future.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,

When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt.

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

Of course I'm troubled by huge consumer debt levels - we've pushed consumer credit very hard in the US. Eventually, if it keeps growing, it will stop growing. As Herb Stein said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." When it stops, it may be unpleasant. Other than Herb Stein's quote, I have no comment. But the things that trouble you are troubling me.

When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The reduction in sales is a plus for bonds. Investor confidence in the government's ability to manage public debt is increasing.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

We absolutely positively have to do some major belt-tightening. We're accumulating debt at such an alarming rate it is truly unsustainable.

We absolutely have to give the Debt Management Office the power to deal with the huge change in demand. There will be a substantial change in policy.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it is a very ineffective way to pay debt down.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

There are plenty of young families who don't want to go into debt for five to seven years to have a safe, functional automobile.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

We've been helped by the markets but the great thing about Chase is its balance. We are the world's largest raiser of debt capital for corporations. If the equity market is not strong it creates a lot of opportunity in the debt market and that's where we dominate.

We're a debt-free township and we strive in our budget to keep it that way.

Yesterday's auction showed strong demand for debt and people were looking for a reason to buy.

We've seen a sea change, a real shift over the past generation from a system where less than half of students left with debt and now two-thirds leave with debt. Now, it's become the norm to leave with debt -- and often with a lot of debt.

There is debt and there is a black hole.

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

We have a promise not to let our debt grow faster than our economy, ... I'm concerned. I'm taking action.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

This quarter's disappointing net loss occurred during one of the most severe global market dislocations in the post-World War II period, ... Equity markets declined, risk premiums in debt markets widened, and investment banking activity slowed markedly. Bankers Trust sustained significant losses in emerging market debt, high-yield debt and in our equity holdings.

This puts in place a number of consumer protections that give people an opportunity to take a break from the treadmill of debt they get locked into with payday loans.

This program is a great opportunity for students as well as parents to be educated on education debt. We are here to help students and parents figure everything out.

The program doesn't have the ability to pay it back or to service debt of that size.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

Credit is an 'I love debt' score.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

When two Muslims go into business, they are encouraged to go in as equals. Debt is prohibited, as one party would have leverage over another. In an Islamic business deal, both parties share the risk.

Lifting the debt burden from the poorest countries in the world brightens their prospects enormously. This is an achievement of historic proportions.