Andrew Jackson

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.