Debt Quotes

“An emotional debt is hard to square.”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“If you don't take good care of your credit, then your credit won't take good care of you.”
― Tyler Gregory

“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed. Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“If repairing one's credit is as easy as sending some dispute letters to the credit bureaus then why doesn't everyone have good credit?”
― Tyler Gregory

“Debt basically enables people to live a lie.”
― Rachel Cruze, Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money

“When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?”
― Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent

“Only debt is forever.”
― Charles Stross, Neptune's Brood

“Death is a debt to Nature due
Which we have paid and so must you.”
― Tombstone epitaph in Tatamagouche Nova Scotia

“If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The creation of the mortgage bond market, a decade earlier, had extended Wall Street into a place it had never before been: the debts of ordinary Americans.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.”
― Mark Sundeen, The Man Who Quit Money

“A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, to-morrow, and dying to-day, insolvent...”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Financial fitness is not pipe dream or a state of mind it's a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it.”
― Will Robinson

“Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“In 1987 Senator Jesse Helms, stated "it is no secret that the international bankers profiteer form sovereign state debt. The New York banks have found important profit centers in lending to countries plunged into debt by Socialist regimes. Under Socialist regimes, countries go deeper and deeper into debt because Socialism as an economic system does not work. International bankers are sophisticated enough to understand this phenomenon and they are sophisticated enough to profit from it.”
― Mark M. Rich, The Hidden Evil: The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population

“When the choice is debt or death, best borrow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.”
― L G Durand

“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.”
― Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you’ll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.”
― Ogwo David Emenike

“I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.”
― Ernie Banks

“When Steve Eisman stumbled into this new, rapidly growing industry of specialty finance, the mortgage bond was about to be put to a new use: making loans that did not qualify for government guarantees. The purpose was to extend credit to less and less creditworthy homeowners, not so that they might buy a house but so that they could cash out whatever equity they had in the house they already owned.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“Dishonorable people do not honor their arrangements. A bill of sale only requires payment, a contract only requires completion, and/or a debt merely requires a payment.”
― Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea, Spidersilk

“Isn't it sad that we have to gain control of the artificial numbers placed upon us by others to regain some control of our lives?”
― Rick Gregory

“Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.”
― L G Durand

“Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !”
― L G Durand

“[Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets in relative balance over time, and keeping debt coming down, at least during reasonably good times.”
― Alex Himelfarb, Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

“An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.”
― Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It