99 Borrowed Money Quotes
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Famous Borrowed Money Quotes
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most. — Proverbs
Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends. — Irwin Corey
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — Benjamin Franklin
Literally at the end of 2019, our cash flow was low... We had to borrow a little money to keep filming. — MrBeast
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess — Irving Fisher
You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money. — Yiddish Proverbs
Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. — Scottish Proverbs
Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop. — American Proverbs
Instead of saving for the possibility of a rainy day, fiat makes you borrow against all of your future sunny days. — Saifedean Ammous
Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned. — American Proverbs
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts. — Mike Rowe
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. — George Washington
Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer. — Grant Cardone
Short Borrowed Money Quotes
- A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
- A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. — Bob Hope
- A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. — Publilius Syrus
- We need to stop spending money we don't have. — Paul Ryan
- Worry is in short supply, risky borrowers, questionable schemes, precarious financial system — Howard Marks
- We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. — Hillary Clinton
- Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them. — Ogden Nash
- Creditors have better memories than debtors. — Benjamin Franklin
- The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson
Don't Borrow Money Quotes
Being popular is the most important thing in the world! — Homer
I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it. — Robert Kiyosaki
Today, people are having to spend so much of their money, to acquire a house and to get an education that they don't have enough to spend on goods and services, except by running into yet more debt on their credit cards and other borrowings. — Michael Hudson
When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it? — Moses Malone
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. — Lord Burleigh
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. — Warren Buffett
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it. — Warren Buffett
The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills. — Peter Schiff
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. — Sonny Bono
Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same. We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies. — Rand Paul
Borrow Lend Quotes
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling
Distance lends enchantment to the view. — Mark Twain
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow. — William Dunbar
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce
Borrowing is not much better than begging. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more. — André Aciman
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. — Ambrose Bierce
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing
Borrowed Time Quotes
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers. — Jerome Powell
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write. — Grace Paley
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. — Maureen O'Hara
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake. — George Friedman
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness. — Ernst Junger
When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time. — Jay Shetty
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. — Agatha Christie
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. — William Shakespeare
People Writing About Borrowed Money
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 Benjamin Franklin |
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 American Proverbs |
195 | 308 |
 Proverbs |
689 | 14076 |
 Irwin Corey |
13 | 570 |
 Oscar Wilde |
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 MrBeast |
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More Borrowed Money Quotes
When the central bank manipulates the interest rate lower than the market clearing price by directing banks to create more money by lending, they are at once reducing the amount of savings available in society and increasing the quantity demanded by borrowers while also directing the borrowed capital toward projects which cannot be completed. — Saifedean Ammous
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. — Al Gore
Food price inflation is running at 13% in Ireland. The people creating policy are laughably unserious. The government is borrowing money to give to farmers to destroy the food supply. This is Robert Mugabe economic policy. — Philip Pilkington
I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it. — Mitt Romney
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. — Richard Pryor
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. — Ron Paul
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money. — John Maynard Keynes
Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer. — Grant Cardone
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here. — Alan Greenspan
Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point. — Kevin Plank
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. — Abraham Lincoln
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. — Scottish Proverbs
Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned. — Phyllis Mcginley
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. — Christie Brinkley
Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas. — Peter DeFazio
The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies. — Wolfgang Schauble
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money — George Washington
You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth. — J. Paul Getty
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. — Bill Gross
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. — Josh Billings
You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown. — Joe Greene
Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket. — Mike Belkin
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money. — Mortimer Zuckerman
We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life. — Will Rogers
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. — Mark Twain
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
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