Borrowers Quote by James Grant Download Open image “Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.” — James Grant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borrowers Debt Investing Lenders
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor. — James Grant Copy Share Image
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
People tend to think that paying a debt is like going out and buying a car, buying more food or buying more clothes. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a… — James Grant Copy Share Image
It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant Copy Share Image
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. — James Grant Copy Share Image
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. — James Grant Copy Share Image
It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it? — James Grant Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the… — James Grant Copy Share Image
In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices. — James Grant Copy Share Image
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting… — James Grant Copy Share Image
I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at. — Bear Bryant 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
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. — Christopher Isherwood 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 and financially… — Nouriel Roubini 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 lending. — Solomon 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 out largely… — Matt Taibbi 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 good. — Thomas Frank 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 not take… — Robert B. Anderson 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, or beauty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. — Richard Heber Copy Share Image
