Quotes on Borrowing

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

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

Author: Doris Lessing

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.

Author: Michel Montaigne

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Author: Paul Ryan

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

Author: Ralph Sockman

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

Author: Mark Udall