Debt Quotes - Page 23

• I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

  Dave Grohl

  Black, Band, Today

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.

  Alexander Chee

  Inspiration, Order, Gestures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

  Dan Ariely

  Reason, Should

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

  Dan Ariely

  People, Cost, Problem

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• Imagine you owe on five credit cards, you owe five debts. So which debt should you pay first? And the answer is very simple: You should pay the one with the highest interest rate first. But that's not what people do.

  Dan Ariely

  Simple, People, Pay

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it is a very ineffective way to pay debt down.

  Dan Ariely

  Numbers, People, Pay

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

  Danny Trejo

  Argument

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When I get asked the question, "Do I want to loan you money?" I want to know, how much do you earn? How much do you owe? What is your net worth? When people talk about countries for some reason they only ask how much did you earn and what's your debt?

  George Friedman

  Country, People, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States is going to come out of this recession fast. The Europeans are going to fragment. The Chinese are going to be cremated. Why could we come out of it? Why has all economic theory been proven wrong? Because we're rich and we could afford it.

  George Friedman

  Chinese, United States, Rich

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Crush, Country, Party

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Order, Giving, Important

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

  Mark Twain

  Worry, Might, Interest

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• The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

  Alan Greenspan

  Zero, United States, Pay

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• The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Offering, Suffering

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• Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

  Susana Martinez

  "Paul Ryan Speaks at Republican National Convention". "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Wolf Blitzer and Erin Burnett, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

  Barry Goldwater

  Light, White, House

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• I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Gore Vidal, Novelist of U.S. Past Sees an Empire Replacing Republic He So Admired". Interview with Robert Scheer, www.latimes.com. December 15, 1991.

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• There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

  Warren Buffett

  America, Worry, Inappropriate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

  Patch Adams

  Sleep, Departed, Way

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

  Bill Gross

  Gdp, Growth, Tendencies

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• Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Burden, Heavy, Walks

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Senior, Mistake, School

  "Financial Education: The Solution for the Future of Our Economy?" by Alexa Von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

  Meredith Whitney

  Real, Past, Years

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• Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

  Jerry Bridges

  Sin, Possibility, Paid

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• Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

  George Eliot

  Money, Errors, Differences

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.512, 谷月社

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