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Debt Quotes

Lines on borrowing, risk, and recovery.

These quotes treat debt as a serious force in both personal and national life, echoing an old warning that unchecked debt can undermine governments as surely as war. A related economic reflection appears in our Debt Ceiling quotes.

We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Quotes by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by...

Quotes by Carly Fiorina

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Quotes by Carl Jung

Apparently, blaming oneself for debilitating student debt is common.

Quotes by Camille Perri

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

Quotes by Cameron Mackintosh

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Quotes by Brunello Cucinelli

The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.

Quotes by Bruce Pittman

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

Quotes by Bruce Rauner

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

Quotes by Brianna Wu

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

Quotes by Brigham Young

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

Quotes by Bob Corker

In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk.

Quotes by Blythe Masters

I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.

Quotes by Billy Al Bengston

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

Quotes by Bill Gross

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and...

Quotes by Bill Johnson

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Quotes by Bill Johnson

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Quotes by Beppe Grillo

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

Quotes by Beppe Grillo

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

Other lines argue that budget discipline is essential to long-term financial health, while low-income households still need fair access to everyday credit. See also our Debtor and Debtors pages.