Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.