The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket. — Mike Belkin Copy Share Image
It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills. — Robert Manning Copy Share Image
'The Borrowers' is the story of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of houses and borrow from the occupants. I may… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser,… — David McCord Copy Share Image
The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Chinese want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have 'developing nation' status and are out there… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does… — Robert B. Anderson Copy Share Image
As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta",… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“all loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè. — John Milton Copy Share Image
When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Debt collectors should not have the right to endlessly harass borrowers. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can't afford. — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the… — Solomon Copy Share Image
