Browsing Topic Best Borrowed Money Quotes

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Look, I’m very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we’ve gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don’t think we can play subtle policy here.

I love awards, especially if I get them. It’s up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You’re either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

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.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

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

I am very much in favor of tax cuts.

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.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

I don’t save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don’t have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We’re not using borrowed money to grow. So we’ll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn’t work, we’ll close it and lose a little equity. It won’t kill us.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

To pay for my father’s funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can’t remember a nobody’s name, that’s why they’re called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.