Frank Lautenberg

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

American Politician

Elon Musk

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

South African Businessman

Stacey Abrams

I finished my higher education deeply in debt and with seven years of bad credit in my future.

Frankie Boyle

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

Scottish Comedian

Ernie Banks

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

American Baseball Player

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

American Entertainer

Roy Blunt

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Josh Peck

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

American Actor

Manu Ginobili

The game gave me so much, I am in debt forever.

Argentinian Athlete

Ted Yoho

Use 'debt' to talk about money borrowed that must be paid back, often with interest.

Financial Context

'In debt' is often used metaphorically to describe feeling obligated to someone for their help.

Metaphoric Use

Commonly paired phrases include 'debt relief,' 'debt consolidation,' and 'debt management.'

Common Collocations

Use 'debt of gratitude' to express a strong feeling of thanks for something someone has done.

Gratitude Expression

'Debt of honour' implies a moral obligation that's not legally binding, often in a formal context.

Honor Bound

Talking about an 'emotional debt' can describe feelings of owing someone for personal support.

Emotional Debt

'Debt' is used to describe the total amount of money a country owes to its creditors.

Economic Term

'Public debt' refers to government debt, while 'private debt' is owed by individuals or businesses.

Public vs. Private

A 'debt ceiling' is the maximum amount of debt a government allows itself to hold.

Borrowing Limit

 Interest rates, meanwhile, reflect the cost of taking on debt for individuals and companies. The rate is typically an annual percentage of a loan that borrowers pay to their creditors until the loan is repaid. Low interest rates mean that companies can afford to borrow more money, which they can use to invest in more projects.

What causes an economic...

 College has some shortcomings. It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt. But all in all, it's a pretty good path. Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends and with a lot of knowledge about the world. And perhaps most importantly,

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 And it grows slowly. You know, one or two or three percent a year. It grows slowly, and it's not volatile, because knowledge isn't volatile. But it grows, and that raises our living standards over a period of time. Then there's the short-term debt cycle.

What coronavirus means...

 discipline that has the passion and has the talent you know to do what they do every day incrementally better until the day they die a master doesn't retire the master doesn't stop they do it until their debt it's a part of them it's who you are

The Art of Shaping a...

 too terrified to invest it into the productive activities that can generate the incomes from which you can extinguish the mountain of debts and which can produce all those things that humanity desperately needs, like green energy.

Capitalism will eat...

 pressure, opportunity, and rationalization. Pressure is often what motivates someone to engage in fraud to begin with. It could be a personal debt, an addiction, an earnings quota, a sudden job loss, or an illness in the family.

How people rationalize...

 But the self-loathing of that period left a void, and celebration needs to fill and overflow it, and even if I repay my private debt of melancholy, there's still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address.

How the worst moments in...

 then lastly not a direct debt of the country but it's the contingent liabilities which we saw in the recent crisis is very important the too big to fail those institutions in a country where a government will step in if I

Pulling back the curtain...

 audacious objectives. The first is debt relief for the poorest countries in the world. The next is universal access to anti-HIV drugs. Now, why are these good objectives? Let's go back to our checklist.

Why the secret to...

 far from the debt and sterility of the cave George is surrounded by countless forms of life