How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.
Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.
The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.
Enron is now officially out of the energy business. They are now in a new business: confetti.
I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit more money to support his spending, so at the peak of the internet bubble he was selling puts on internet stocks. He lost all of his money and his house and now works in a restaurant. It's not a smart thing for the country to legalize gambling [in the stock market] and make it very accessible.
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.
I invested all my money in debt.
Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not!
You're out of business!
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].
Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
The government seems to be set on bankrupting Proton and selling it off, because I think it is regarded as my baby.
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
