I have never had personal debt and never will.
When you get in debt you become a slave.
Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.
God's dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!
You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.
As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.
Debt is normal. Be weird.
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.
I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
Absolutely pay off credit card debt. If you're not getting a match in your 401(k) and you've got credit card debt, you've got to get yourself out of credit card debt. When you get out of credit card debt, your credit score goes up and interest starts to go down.
Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.
Get rid of debt now.
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
Your future should be determined by your dreams, not weighed down with debt.
The debt to which she was referring was the student loans that most graduates have to pay back.