Top 40 Borrowing Quotes

Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

If you’re running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

I remember borrowing my mum’s Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

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

Huge public spending and borrowing in the face of an existential crisis is clearly the right thing to do, as is putting people’s health and wellbeing above the pursuit of economic growth.

Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it’s the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.

Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn’t thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can’t. It’s not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you’re going to give it back. It’s something that you can never repay someone for.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Before borrowing money from a friend it’s best to decide which you need most.

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else’s money.

When you sample something, you’re using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that’s already great, that’s already stood the test of time, that’s already special. When you’re trying to do it all from scratch, you’re writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

A well-functioning transmission should at some point go from the overnight right up to 40 years, and that is the ultimate objective in having monetary transmission that affects the whole gamut of borrowing tenure.

It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it’s the rule.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

I don’t remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Being in a class with kids, meeting new people, and borrowing notes from other students – I’ve never done that before. I’ve always had to fend for myself.

My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I’ve carried throughout my life – things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don’t, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

I am naturally cautious so I guess I am a saver. I’m a firm believer in not borrowing money, which is a lesson passed down to me from my parents and grandparents.

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

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.

Basically he never went to work and didn’t have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn’t, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.

We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we’re always stingy about books. We always think of borrowing. Why? Writers can use some support. If you have space and money, you should buy your own books.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad’s house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn’t mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

I haven’t inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he’s borrowing against his future well-being.