Personal Debt Quotes

#1. There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

Vince Cable

#2. I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

Kris Holden-Ried

#3. I have never had personal debt and never will.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

Vince Cable

#5. Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

Oliver DeMille

#6. To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal diminishment, an insult to nature and common sense.

Wendell Berry

#7. The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that you're in debt, or dirty, or likely to be mugged.

Helen Dunmore

#8. Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai

Saif Ali Khan

#9. We are in a boy recession," Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.

Flynn Meaney

#10. Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

Ralph Goodale

#11. Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. -

Bella Abzug

#12. The second Mrs. Helstone, inversing the natural order of insect existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired butterfly, and crawled the rest of her days a sordid trampled worm.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Simon Mainwaring

#14. The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

Jason Chaffetz

#15. In the mid-1980s, the ratio of debt to personal disposable income for American households was 65 percent. During the next two decades, U.S. household leverage more than doubled, reaching an all-time high of 133 percent in 2007.

Katherine Porter

#16. Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.

Alexa Von Tobel

#17. What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

Zephyr Teachout

#18. Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.

James Bobin

#19. The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Billy Collins

#20. Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.

Barbara Delinsky

#21. Quite the mind and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya

#22. A natural saver is great until he never spends and is tight-fisted with giving. A natural spender is great until she finds herself deeply in debt and unable to give. A natural giver is great until there are no savings when a problem arises and there is no personal enjoyment of money.

Dave Ramsey

#23. The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

Jonathan Sacks

#24. Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey." -Kes

Pepper Winters

#25. Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

R.C. Sproul

#26. Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.

Paul Smith

#27. If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract.

Bob Proctor

#28. A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

Hans F. Sennholz

#29. Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

Nathan W. Morris

#30. Isn't that just typical. You're either asking for it, or having it forced upon you without your consent. Who decided women always have to be passive in sex?

Nenia Campbell

#31. I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.

Lapo Elkann