Generosity Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Great spenders are bad lenders.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Lenders Money
Borrowing isn't inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can't afford. — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
“... low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ...” — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“We see money accumulating at the centers, with difficulty of finding safe investment for it; interest rates dropping down lower than ever before; money… — D.M. Frederikson Copy Share Image
I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think more and more people are becoming much more sensitive to what they do with their money when they die, especially if they… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
