Mortgage Quotes

• If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Years, Want

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• The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.

  Sherrie Levine

  Photography, Art, Men

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• Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny days and are almost never stress-tested for stormy weather. Securitization is an area that almost perfectly fits this description; markets for securitized assets such as subprime mortgages completely collapsed in 2008 and have not fully recovered. Ironically, the government is eager to restore the securitization markets back to their pre-collapse stature.

  Seth Klarman

  Stress, Government, Weather

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• Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

  Andrew Young

  Children, Taken, Ideas

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• Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

  Mark Forsyth

  Taken, Pledge

  Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.214, Icon Books Ltd

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• Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Men, Vanity, Values

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• The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

  Dave Ramsey

  Taken, Home, Bmw

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• Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

  Thomas Sowell

  Las Vegas, People, Saving

  "Taxpayers’ Trillion". www.nationalreview.com. September 24, 2008 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225751/taxpayers-trillion-thomas-sowell.

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• Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

  Suze Orman

  Fixed, Rate

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• Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

  Suze Orman

  Shopping, Percentages, Rate

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• If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

  Suze Orman

  Goal, House, Pay

  "Suze Orman on the 'New' American Dream" by Vicki Mabrey, abcnews.go.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Pay, Financial

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• As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Loss, Grandchildren

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

  Michael Moore

  Brother, Two, Feet

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• I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

  Steve Martin

  Children, Wall, Accepting

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• Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Land, Ems

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• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Retirement, Pay, Loan

  "Will you save in the long run? Refinancing 101" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Bird, Feelings

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• In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

  Thomas Frank

  Bankers, Bonus, Loan

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• If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Thinking, Acting

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• Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Years, Energy

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• When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Believe, Character

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pie, People, Scarcity

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Jobs, People

  Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, Growth, Saudi Arabia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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