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Quotes About Borrowing

Next, Cohn repeated what everyone was saying: Interest rates were going to go up over the foreseeable future. I agree, Trump said. "We should just go borrow a lot of money right now, hold it, and then sell it and make money." Cohn was astounded at Trump's lack of basic understanding. He tried to explain. If you as the federal government borrow money through issuing bonds, you are increasing the U.S. deficit.
~ Bob Woodward
You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers.
~ Sylvia Plath
It's about keeping the peace," said Rasso from the livery. His choice of words made Marzo want to smile. Rasso had borrowed the phrase from him and, like any man in the colony who borrowed anything, he seemed determined to use it till it fell apart before he was called on to give it back.
~ K.J. Parker
The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.
~ Elaine Chao
Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
~ Frank McKinney Hubbard
An interest rate is the cost of borrowing or the price paid for the rental of funds (usually expressed as a percentage of the rental of $100 per year). Many types of interest rates are found in the economy—mortgage interest rates, car loan rates, and interest rates on many different types of bonds.
~ Frederic S. Mishkin
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is difficult to being without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
~ Henry Miller
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
~ Peter Orszag
Simply complete the form, and your friend will receive the book. It will be returned to your library automatically in 14 days or, if the borrower finishes the book before then, it can be returned early. Remember, while your book is being borrowed, you won't have access to it on your Kindle.
~ Steve Weber
Loiosh Informed me of his approach just before he said, "You may borrow them, if you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me. "I'd like that very much." "I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for people who don't return books." "I'd like to borrow those, too.
~ Steven Brust
You may borrow them, if you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me. "I'd like that very much." "I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for people who don't return books." "I'd like to borrow those, too.
~ Steven Brust
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
~ Thomas Tusser
Never ask for small loans.
~ Aristotle Onassis
A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero.  I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason.  I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
~ Milan Kundera
Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
~ Dave Ramsey
We borrow. We steal. We purchase what we need and buy what we don't. We acquire things, people, places, all in the process of losing ourselves. Busyness is the religion of distraction. I cannot talk to you, because I have too much to do.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels.
~ Gabrielle Zevin