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“We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.”

“How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!”

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Author:Mark Steyn

“I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of borrowing, but theorists went bonkers on the cost of equity capital. They say that if you're generating a 100% return on capital, then you shouldn't invest in something that generates an 80% return on capital. It's crazy.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.”

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Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.”

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Author:Laurie Simmons

“We started in our living room on a card table in our living room, and we have a multi-million dollar company and we know it can be done without borrowing a dime. It takes a while to get it started and to turn the wheel over, but the next time it's easier and the next few hundred times, it's easier than that. Have a budget where you reinvest a percentage of every dollar you earn to grow it.”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

“[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.”

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Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.”

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Author:Anton Yelchin

“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.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.”

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Author:Andrea Leadsom

“Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.”

“This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.”

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Author:Bill Ayers

“The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“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.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.”

“I found my voice when I started doing YouTube videos, and that's when I was pretty old, to be honest. I think it's about exploration. I think it's about trying new things, meeting new people, and also, it's about borrowing inspiration from other people. Because I still have those moments where I'm like, "Oh my God, I'm a loser, what am I doing?"”

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Author:Lilly Singh

“We can't expect entrepreneurs and businesses large and small to take their life savings or their company's money and invest in America if they think we're headed to the road to Greece. And that's where we're going right now unless we finally get off this spending and borrowing binge. And I'll get us on track to a balanced budget.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Getting the economy back on its feet is properly viewed as an investment in future prosperity. When businesses and consumers confront attractive investment opportunities, often the only way to seize them is by borrowing. The same is true for government. Contrary to the pronouncements of critics of economic stimulus, these investments will not impoverish our grandchildren. Continuing to allow the economy to languish in recession is the surest way to impoverish them.”

“In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.”

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Author:Patrick Carney

“There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.”

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Author:George Osborne

“One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.”

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Author:Ninian Smart

“I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.”

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Author:Shura

“Debtor countries may postpone the inevitable by borrowing from the IMF or U.S. Treasury to buy out bondholders. This saves the latter from taking a loss - leaving the debtor country with debts that are even harder to annul, because they are to foreign governments and international institutions.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Let's have honest interest rates. Let's let the free market set interest rates in that zone where supply of savings is matched up with demand for real borrowing for capital projects.”

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Author:David Stockman

“People are enduring more than a temporary financial crisis. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the economy. Companies and industries will in great measure no longer grow by borrowing vast capital to make huge acquisitions. The way to grow to critical mass - the Google way - will be to become platforms and networks that enable others to build businesses, grow, and succeed.”

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Author:Jeff Jarvis

“Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for maneuver, less money available to stimulate the eocnomy in the way needed.”

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Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Rather than Barack Obama borrowing from Mitt Romney, both Romney and Obama borrowed from Richard Nixon.”

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Author:Stuart Altman

“The roots of the crisis in East Asia were in private sector decisions. The biggest problems were the misallocation of investment, most notably to speculative real estate, and risky financing, especially borrowing short-term debt on international markets.”

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Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”

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Author:Charles Lamb

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

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Author:Doris Lessing

“I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.”

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Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“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.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

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

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Author:Paul Ryan

“That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“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.”

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Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”

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Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

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

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.”

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Author:Aeschylus

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