Thomas Carlyle

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on the smoothest road.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

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

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!

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

Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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

Debt is the worst poverty.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…