Quotes about Debt
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.
- Robert Kiyosaki
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- Billie Jean King
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
- Edmund Burke
The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.
- Will Rogers
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.
- James A. Garfield
When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.
- Joyce Meyer
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
- Henry Ward Beecher