Bankruptcy Quotes - Page 9

• The Stock Market was down today. Two major businesses declared bankruptcy, consumer spending is at an all time low - in other words, Bush is back on the job.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Two, All Time Low

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• Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  African Spir

  Appreciate, Risk, Too Much

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

  Matt Chandler

  Vanity, Slavery, Gains

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• Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Winter, Men, Ice

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• We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

  Barbara Jordan

  Children, School, Order

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• I can't tell you how many home businesses are almost in bankruptcy court over a Yellow Pages ad only to find out that the Yellow Pages ad isn't where their market will look for them, and it cost more than they thought.

  Dave Ramsey

  Home, Yellow, Looks

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• Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Declaration

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• I'm only thin-skinned when somebody says bad things that are false. For instance, if you hit me about something that's true, all right, the bankruptcy - I used that as a tool. I didn't ever file for bankruptcy.

  Donald Trump

  Tools, Used, Instance

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.

  Rand Paul

  Secret, Together, Stronger

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.

  Michael R. Burch

  Children, Lines, Heirs

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• When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

  Christina Stead

  Money, People, Gold

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

  Rand Paul

  Dollars, Projects, Minutes

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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• My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Religious, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

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• Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

  Tim Johnson

  Country, Commitment, Air

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• The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Europe, Political

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• In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

  Clayton Christensen

  School, Years, Mind

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• I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

  Brendan Coyle

  Father, Destruction, Difficulty

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• When we finally have this recall election in October, there could be as many as 200 people on the ballot. And you know what's really scary? Most of them don't know the first thing about driving a state into bankruptcy. They're not experts like Governor Gray Davis.

  Jay Leno

  People, Scary, Experts

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• If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Loss, Views, People

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• The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Gambling, Government, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Moving, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Order, Rotten

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, People, Calling

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• Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Memories, Loneliness

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