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Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

A good debt is not as good as no debt.
Chinese Proverb

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.
Quote from Les Miserables

One who restrains his appetites avoids debt.
Chinese Proverb

Borrowing money from a friend is like sex—it completely changes the relationship!
Quote from Seinfeld

Talking about debt collectors..."One guy called me everyday last week. I said, 'Look, every month I put everyone I owe into a hat, I pick three names, I pay those people. And if you call me one more time I'm taking you out of the hat.' They all want to be in the hat.
Margaret Smith

Stretch your leg only as far as your blanket.
Turkish Proverb

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb
Credit card companies have been using unfair and deceptive practices to trick Americans into signing agreements they can't afford.
Barack Obama

Free from debt is free from care.
Chinese Proverb

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais

He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Moliere

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips


If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Lend less than you owe.
William Shakespeare


All things are difficult before they are easy.
John Norley

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
Paul Clitheroe
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.

Living modestly and being happy with what you have--therein lies the success of saving.
Scott Bilker

Financial success is having control over your finances rather than having your finances in control of you.
Scott Bilker

If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin

Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.
Joel Osteen

Organization is the key to success with anything.
Scott Bilker

Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's real.
Anthony Robbins


Control your destiny, or someone else will!
Jack Welch

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson


Too many men work on parts of things; doing a job to completion satisfies me.
Dick Proenneke


Borrow money from pessimists—they don't expect it back.
Steven Wright

You can't really have a happy life without having a healthy financial life.
Scott Bilker


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth




I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. And I had no idea I could be this happy without incurring credit card debt."
Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde 2"



Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw


Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn

If thou lend money to any of My people,...thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
Exodus 22:24



I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E.E. Cummings


When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? Quotes

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Balance


As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
George Washington


Action is the foundational key to all success. Knowing is not enough! Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
Tony Robbins

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
Edwin Land (inventor of the Polaroid camera)


If medical science continues to prolong life, some of us may eventually pay off the mortgage.
Jonathan Pond

If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
Andrew Jackson

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
Winston Churchill

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
Ogden Nash

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

I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.
Clinton Jones

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

The way to learn to do things is to do things. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Mark Twain

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown

The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Joel Osteen

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost


Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: "I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars."
Mark Twain


If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Neither a borrower or lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Shakespeare

Do not be made a beggar by banqueting upon borrow,
when thou hast nothing in thy purse:
for thou shall lie in wait for thine own life,
and be talked on.
Bible

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
George Bernard Shaw

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts;
you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Lord Bryon

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Quote from The Two Races of Men

Be sure you know a person well before you vouch for his credit. Better refuse than to suffer later.
Proverbs 11:15


The only way to beat the banks is to make them fight for your business!
Scott Bilker

Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage for me it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.
Rich Vos


There's a fine line between, 'oh, that's cute' and 'I have to have that now.’
Larissa S. Bilker


Creating a budget is much easier than sticking to one.
Scott Bilker


Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
Albert Einstein

It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place.
Carl Lofmark

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Seneca

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Benjamin Disraeli


God's dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!
Joel Osteen

I paid the bank note, the car note, an' yes, I paid the 'phone bill too. An' then I turned around an' I found that the house note's due. Well, I'd love to take you out like I said I would, honey, But there's too much month at the end of the money.
Marty Stuart

Credit-Card-Itis: A documented syndrome resulting in pain in the rear that runs down the thigh due to pressure on a nerve from a wallet stuffed with credit cards.
New England Medical Journal