The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like...

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Run for the hills if anyone asks you to inflate your income or deflate your debt,

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

The average debt per household is $9,000. The rate now is $180. It will be $360.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

If you don’t take good care of your credit, then your credit won’t take good care of you.

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

A good friend of mine, Tom, had $15,000 in credit- card debt. I recommended to him that he go and buy a home anyway. Ultimately, his home went up in value so much in the...

Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to ‘covet thy neighbor’s wife’ clearly referred not to lust in one’s heart (adultery had already been covered in commandment number seven), but to...

but by the conception of a little thought of idea, a great work would not have existed. When we live in a day without conceiving an idea, we waste the day. A day wasted is...

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.

Continuing sharp improvements in Venezuela’s external and debt indicators motivated the upgrade. High oil prices have generated large current account surpluses for the country, which in turn has boosted the external assets of the public...