Creditors Quotes

• Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

  Mark Kirk

  Children, Government, Generations

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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• Creditors have better memories than debtors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Memories, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

  James Howell

  Memories, Business, Debtors

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• Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Debtors, Poor Richard, Frugality

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

  P. T. Barnum

  Memories, Class, People

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.36, Applewood Books

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• Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Circles, Debtors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

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• Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Good Life, Prayer

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• Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

  James Grant

  Debtors, Paid, Ifs

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• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Dwelling, Savages

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.36, 谷月社

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• There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Being Thankful, Pay, Bills

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• For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Literature, Fifty

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• Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Country, Differences, Perspective

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• You'll get much better results by being upfront, answering creditors calls, and responding to their letters. Delaying the inevitable only digs a deeper hole.

  Jean Chatzky

  Letters, Holes, Results

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Debt, World

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2011

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• When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Believe, America

  "The Collapse of American Power". www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2008.

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• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Names, People

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter 6, Scene 20), 44 BC.

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• Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

  John Turner

  Party, Law, Debtors

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• The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Feet, Storm

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

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• Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Pockets, Want

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• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  Naomi Klein

  Rich, Poor, Unspeakable

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• It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

  John George Nicolay

  Confidence, Running, Long

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No man's credit is as good as his money.

  John Dewey

  Money, Business, Men

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• It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, Hot

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

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