Posts Tagged ‘borrowing’
Sonny Bono: Cling to Fame
on Tuesday, October 20, 2020Sonny Bono Money Quote saying being famous is fleeting – once you die, it’s gone. Sonny Bono said:
“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
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Doris Lessing: Lending is Stealing
on Wednesday, August 5, 2020Doris Lessing Money Quote saying lenders are as good as thieves, stealing with interest. Doris Lessing said:
“Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing” — Doris Lessing
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Warren Buffett: Trump Terrific at Borrowing
on Sunday, July 1, 2018Warren Buffett Money Quote saying Donald Trump is more interested in ostentatious display than equity and fairness in real estate and got overextended. Warren Buffett said:
“Where did Donald Trump go wrong? The big problem with Donald Trump was he never went right. He basically overpaid for properties, but he got people to lend him the money. He was terrific at borrowing money. If you look at his assets, and what he paid for them, and what he borrowed to get them, there was never any real equity there” — Warren Buffett
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Ernest Hemingway: Live on Borrowed Money
on Thursday, September 15, 2016Ernest Hemingway Money Quote saying indefinitely living on debt and using credit endlessly is not possible, but many do it quite well for short periods. Ernest Hemingway said:
“It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time” — Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway Birthday July 21,1899
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William Shakespeare: Loans Hurt Friendship
on Sunday, March 8, 2015William Shakespeare Money Quotation saying in Hamlet that losses on loans come to both parties when they start as friends. William Shakespeare said:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
– William Shakespeare
Born April 23, 1564 – Died April 23, 1616
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#TalkLikeShakespeareDay April 23
Al Gore on Borrowing Money to Burn
on Sunday, March 16, 2014Al Gore Money Quotation saying trade deficits finance energy consumption that leads to global warming and climate change. Al Gore said:
“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” — Al Gore
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Shakespeare on Borrowing to Pay Debt
on Saturday, June 8, 2013William Shakespeare Money Quotation saying in this Henry IV (pt 2) line from Falstaff emphasizing the futility of endlessly borrowing to resolve debt. Falstaff said:
“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable” — William Shakespeare
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#TalkLikeShakespeareDay April 22
Abraham Lincoln: Constitution on Government Borrowing
on Wednesday, June 22, 2011Abraham Lincoln Money Quotation saying Abe was opposed to federal government borrowing and wanted to amend the consitution to stop the practice, but failed. Abraham Lincoln said:
“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution taking from the federal government their power of borrowing” — Abraham Lincoln
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