Debt Quotes - Page 17

• Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Two, Pay

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• We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Interesting, Long

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• Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.

  Walter Schloss

  Looks, Investing, Company

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• Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Pain, Food, Tired

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• 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.

  Catharine Beecher

  Honesty, Years, People

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.285, Applewood Books

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• charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Mistake, Compassion, Intellectual

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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• We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.204, Penguin

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• I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

  Alan Greenspan

  Running, Zero, Talking

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• I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Office, Serious

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.211, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Generosity, Giving, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

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• Bet on black. Buy low-debt or no-debt companies. When the economy is in trouble, these companies usually have enough cash on hand to stay out of trouble. And they seldom need to borrow when interest rates are high.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Hands, Black, Cash

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• We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to the families of those individuals. Whether protecting our freedoms in foreign fields or making contributions here at home, the value these men and women bring to the American workforce and our way of life is beyond measure.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Gratitude, Military, Home

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• The oldest and most important currency is debt.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Important, Currency

  Source: www.choprafoundation.org

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• I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

  Kevin Smith

  Worry, Trying, Interest

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• Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

  Jacques Chirac

  Business, Mistake, Butterfly

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• In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I'm very careful. But as an actor I'm pretty reckless. I've done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I've made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me.

  Christopher Walken

  Eye, Years, Actors

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.

  David Ramsey

  Inspirational, Motivation, Stress

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• We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

  Mitch McConnell

  Looks, Size, Economy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When after many battles past,
  Both tir'd with blows,
  make peace at last,
  What is it, after all, the people get?
  Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  War, Blow, Past

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• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
  How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
  The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
  (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
  Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  Lord Byron

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

  Terence

  Men, Pay, Bills

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• The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.429

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• Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

  Susan George

  Powerful, Army, Administration

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• Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

  Arthur Smith

  Scary, Important, Ongoing

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