Borrowing Money Quotes

• 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

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• 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

  Jobs, Business, Phones

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• Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

  Peter DeFazio

  Running, Made, Deficit

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• There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

  George Washington

  Practice, Dangerous, Borrowing

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.12, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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• You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Money, Income

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• Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

  Jackie Mason

  Love, Funny, Inspiring

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• He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Debt By Founding Fathers, Awe Inspiring

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.252, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.72, Cosimo Classics

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Enough, Acquaintance

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 12

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• People cannot live by lending money to one another.

  John Ruskin

  Money, People, Lending

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• 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.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Stranger, Neighbor, Lending Money

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• Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Money, Work

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.206, Hachette UK

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• There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.

  George Washington

  Loss, Practice, Sweat

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• 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

  Civilization, Oil, Years

  Al Gore's speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2008.

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• Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

  Martin Mayer

  Men, Widows, Handsome

  Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

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• We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Years, United States

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.

  Dave Ramsey

  Cash, Today, Firsts

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• The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

  John Podhoretz

  Sound, Pay, Problem

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• Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Cousin, Jobs, Like Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.376, A&C Black

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• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Chinese

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• The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Blow, Wind, Chinese

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