Ali Smith

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

Scottish Writer

Jo Nesbo

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

Norwegian Author

Paul Ryan

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

American Politician

Shane Filan

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

Irish Musician

Denis McDonough

In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn't need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you're uninsured, it can bankrupt you.

American Public Servant

Deb Haaland

Too many American families go bankrupt from healthcare expenses, and low wage workers have to hold two or three jobs just to make ends meet, which leaves many young children without any hope of having a pre-K education - the most important start to a good education and a path out of poverty.

Roseanne Barr

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

American Actress

Ralph W. Sockman

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

American Leader

Katy Perry

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

American Musician

Chris Eubank Sr.

I'm not bankrupt of fun, life, my dignity, my character, my essence.

British Athlete

Bankrupt often suggests financial ruin, not just temporary money issues.

Severity of Debt

Being bankrupt may involve a legal process to recognize the inability to repay debts.

Legal Process

'Go bankrupt' often refers to businesses failing, not just individuals.

Business Context

A bankrupt is someone officially recognized by law as unable to repay debts.

Official Status

Being called a bankrupt can carry a social stigma, implying failure.

Stigma Attached

When 'bankrupt' is used as a verb, it points to what caused financial collapse.

Cause of Ruin

Usually, an external factor or person is the cause when one is bankrupted.

Somebody Else's Fault

Bankrupt can describe a lack of things that aren't money, like ideas.

Beyond Money

When something is 'bankrupt of' something, it's utterly lacking or empty of it.

Empty of Merit

 We argue about it every time we use it. Argentina just went through it, broke a lot of rules. They got out on the far end, we said, "Fine, don't worry about it." It's transparent. A certain amount of certainty gives the sense of a non-zero outcome. We don't have one for processing politically bankrupt states

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 local farming movement which are very supportive of how to create more crops closer to where we sell the food that we want to produce and the other point I think is really important is the food waste point food waste is such a kind of it's all morally bankrupt the amount of

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 all about typesetting really was was smitten by this machine unfortunately he was smitten in more ways than one because it made him bankrupt and he had to tour the world speaking to to recoup his money and this was an important thing about 19th century technology that

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 to the point of almost bankrupting my lab. But I kept pushing, because I knew these results could be the start of something extraordinary. And what's just as exciting is that my company is now translating these discoveries into the clinic -- into the real world.

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 lost enough loved ones in my life to know that time is energy it's our lifeblood when we drain it away it's gone our plans bankrupt so I had to get real and I'd like to get real here with you about what time that looks like and how I got the situation

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 went bankrupt and i i think you have said that part of the reason for that was that you overestimated the extent to which it was possible at that time to automate a a factory a huge amount was spent kind of over automating and it didn't work

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 But you lose that contract for a major brand name, that's the difference between staying in business or going bankrupt. That makes a difference. So what we've been able to do is we've been able to harness the power and the influence

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 What about fear? Originals feel fear, too. They're afraid of failing, but what sets them apart from the rest of us is that they're even more afraid of failing to try. They know you can fail by starting a business that goes bankrupt

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 is because when the economy is standing still, unless there is help, unless there is monetary policy stimulus, firms are going to go massively bankrupt, people would be unemployed,

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 But then in my 40s, I was just walloped by life. First I got cancer as a new dad of identical twin daughters. Then I almost went bankrupt. Then my dad had that suicide spree.