Bankrupt Quotes

“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Your heart was
a wishing well.
Bottomless.
Trying to love you
bankrupted me.”
― John Mark Green

“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.”
― Hope Barrett, Discovering Oscar

“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious illusion of easy death. Melville prepared for the plunge from the breakwater on the South Street promenade, Whitman at the railing of the outbound ferry, both men redeemed by some Darwinian impulse, maybe some epic vision, which enabled them to change leaden water into lyric wine. Hart Crane rejected the limpid estuary for the brackish swirl of the Caribbean Sea. In each generation, from Washington Irving’s to Truman Capote’s, countless young men of promise and talent have examined the rippling foam between the nation’s literary furnace and her literary playground, questioning whether the reams of manuscript in their Brooklyn lofts will earn them garlands in Manhattan’s salons and ballrooms, wavering between the workroom and the water. And the city had done everything in its power to assist these men, to ease their affliction and to steer them toward the most judicious of decisions. It has built them a bridge.”
― Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck

“At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.”
― Ken Poirot

“Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The end is almost always the beginning of something better.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“COVID-19 will pass after you go bankrupt, lose your home and car, and end up on the streets.”
― Steven Magee

“Doing nothing but seeking pleasure is an attitude that will bankrupt our souls long before we ever seek out the pleasures that we thought would fill them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A giver's purse can never be paused.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is the fast-track to poverty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I never keep my money in just one bank. They can disappear overnight and it can be a long time before you may get your money back.”
― Steven Magee

“Embrace pronoia which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Job’s wife went with her husband from a comfortable and well-supplied lifestyle to being homeless, bankrupt, and childless. She became a caregiver, as she had been to her entire family while they were alive and for her ill husband, who according to Scripture, was in so much physical pain that he wished for death (Job 2:12-13, Job 3). Perhaps the words that his wife uttered, was merely her way of ending the pain for her husband whom she had to witness suffering day after day. It only mentions Job’s three friends that came to comfort him. Job’s wife probably did not have a support network of other women to help and assist her. If she did, while they were affluent, these fair weather friends would probably not have wanted to get involved now. The saying: ‘Sympathy says “sorry” and runs away; empathy says “I understand” and stays’, rings so true. She probably subdued her own sorrow and pain and first took care of her husband’s pain. Yet, she, together with her husband, trusted in the goodness of God. And God blessed them.”
― Paddick Van Zyl

“When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain.”
― Steven Magee

“The COVID-19 homeless epidemic is coming.”
― Steven Magee

“Hang in there, as better times are ahead.”
― Steven Magee

“Everything’s an insult when your soul is bankrupt.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“Theft became an issue in the hurricane Ian aftermath.”
― Steven Magee

“I'm buying time. I went bankrupt.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“If one large bank has collapsed, more may be coming.”
― Steven Magee

“It is not really my son’s fault, after all what can he do. Gambling is an inherited disease, who is he to fight it. Generations before him have succumbed to the rush of excitement, the lure of teasing fate, the brief moment of uncertainty and the prospect of an easy win. It needs no skill, not much effort and certainly no talent - only a deep wallet and a strong heart.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“You can be profitable and bankrupt”
― Jim Collins, [How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In] [By: Collins, Jim] [June, 2009]

“Most businesses fail because business owners take more profits, and give less value.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You