Debt Issues Quotes

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.

My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

Anyway, when I got out of the Army, I went to see a therapist. And she said, what seems to be the trouble? And I said I want to give all my money away. And she said, how much do you have? And I said, I owe $300. She stared at me for several seconds, and she said, I see. Well, let's get to work. And maybe by the time you do have some money, you'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

If you want to know the value of money, try and borrow some.

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe.

On New Year's Day 2008 I had two bailiffs turn up on my doorstep and because I had so little income I had not been paying bills, and I respect the concept of paying bills, I'm very much in favour of it, I just couldn't quite get it together.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

A Mr. Henry Knox, who now fills the chief Departments in Washington's Artillery, is another high Partizan in the Rebellion. He was a Bookseller in the Town of Boston, but he Was too Deep in Debt, for his Stock, to hesitate a Moment at any Scheme to extricate himself. Rebellion first offered her Services, & he accepted them. Some of the late intercepted Letters are descriptive of his present Situation, & it appears by them that he can not expect to make a Fortune by the Congress Paper Dollars. It takes so great a Quantity of them to crowd into a Man's Stomach for one Dinner, that an hard Mexican Dollar is much easier of Digestion.

There are huge misconceptions about people on benefits. They are labelled scroungers or cheats. The reality is that many who need that level of support are working, but their income is not enough to get out of debt or pay for basics like food and household bills. It's so close to the way I grew up.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.