Malcolm Forbes

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died!

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.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

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

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.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

We all think we’re going to get out of debt.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

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

Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West