Banking Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Credit' comes from the Latin 'credere', 'to believe', for credit is the belief that the money you're borrowing will someday be returned, a belief…

— Robert Rowland Smith

“Credit isn't cash, credit is debt. Debt is simply the selling of your own future earnings.”

— Nic Adams

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

— David Graeber

There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the…

— Henry Hazlitt

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

— Benjamin Graham

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

— Will Cuppy

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

— Bernard Levin

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Long term credit means that the less you can pay, the more you pay.”

— Coluche