Quotes About Borrowing

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Such high interest rates are prohibitive for long-term projects; at 20% per annum, the amount owed doubles in less than four years. With such a crushing future burden, no rational businessman or corporation borrows to fund a project that will not become profitable for five or ten years, as is the case with most large commercial undertakings.

it is true that the recession has been made much worse by Downing Street since the Coalition took office. But what was actually needed was not Labour's cherished solution to every problem - more borrowing and spending that we couldn't afford. Instead there should have been a rapid transfer of money from unproductive areas, like pointless bureaucracy, into job-creating activities such as house and road building.

From a portfolio perspective, liabilities act like negative assets. In other words, borrowing by an individual offsets lending (ownership of bond or money-market funds) by that individual.

Historians are aware of all this. Yet the overwhelming majority still conclude that even when European authors explicitly say they are borrowing ideas, concepts and arguments from indigenous thinkers, one should not take them seriously.

Usury was seen above all as an assault on Christian charity, on Jesus's injunction to treat the poor as they would treat the Christ himself, giving without expectation of return and allowing the borrower to decide on recompense (Luke 6:34

The chief cause of bankruptcy in America is catastrophic illness; most borrowing is simply a matter of survival (if one does not have a car, one cannot work); and for most, simply being able to go to college now means debt peonage for at least half of one's subsequent working life.36 Still, it is useful to point out that for real human beings survival is rarely enough. Nor should it be.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

When you drink alcohol you are just borrowing happiness from tomorrow.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.