Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Bradshaw

We're dealing with all the money those Cup teams have. But we're begging, borrowing and stealing trying to make it.

We had moderate growth in income but we're borrowing our brains out. The most concerning thing is that the level of savings is at less than one percent of personal income,

Most borrowers have some financial cushion so the impact won't be immediate; spending an extra $380 is manageable at first. But it's safe to say there are some who will find themselves in budgetary difficulties a year or two down the road.

You can call the lender and the borrower co-victims. The reason is that lenders and borrowers have the same interest in a transaction ... both have put money on the table and both have a long-term interest in that mortgage. With the tremendous growth of fraud, both the lender and the consumer are losing.

You can borrow more, but you still have to pay it back.

You can borrow for college, but you can't borrow for retirement.

You can borrow a camcorder or a still camera and take pictures of everything. Or you can walk from room to room with a tape recorder and note everything you see.

The are probably keeping their plans close to their chest maybe because they are borrowing from the military strategy of a surprise attack.

John Caudwell

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

We need the money now or we will be forced to scale down food deliveries. So far, we have been operating on reserves, and borrowing ... and the pipeline is drying up.

Ben Bernanke

Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.

We feel he has been living on borrowed time for about 32 years, or whatever it was, and we were happy to have him.

We can raise rates, we can borrow more money, or we can mitigate. In the long-run, we can lower costs if we mitigate heavily in this state.

We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) who were not defensive specialists. They were kids that we had to borrow to put in there to makeshift and do some things. We had a lot of people playing the whole way. We probably should have started it like that.

Rising interest rates would typically increase the costs of your home equity line and that's also one of the things that causes the market to implode. You've got borrowing costs that are increasing and secured by your most valuable resource potentially at a time when stocks aren't doing what they could do.

It does pull a lot of money out of people's pockets. Even if it doesn't go back up much, it translates to a 50-to-60-cents-a-gallon gas tax. But for the borrowing that people were willing to do, it probably would have led to recession.

I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should do is leave the existing facility in place and start (building) a new school on the property. They are throwing money away. They are putting Band-Aids on the problem.

John Terry

I struggled... because my Mum and Dad didn't have any money. I had to borrow where I could for things like driving lessons.

We are very, very proud of the fact we're going to be able to build a new library and take on these major improvements over the next few years without having to borrow money for it.

Greg Graffin

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless.

Borrowing in the short term has become the way to resolve these impasses.

Borrowing from physics, the last thing an unstable system needs is a shock. And yet the risks of just such a disturbance have never seemed higher. Far-fetched as it seems, the possibility of a more perilous endgame is rising.

Maurice Hinchey

The level of interest rates keeps going up, the difficulty of borrowing the money has increased also, just in the last five years.

Expanding your menu (as a lender) to include as many loan choices means you get a better opportunity to scour borrowers out of niche markets.

Anti-discrimination laws are the foundation to ensuring that people of color are treated equally. We will vigilantly defend any law, regulation, or ordinance that is designed to ensure equal treatment of all borrowers in the mortgage process.

People run up credit cards to live a certain lifestyle and when the cards run out, so does the lifestyle. If you live a life on borrowed money, it's going to catch up with you.

William Walker

Essentially, what the court found is that Mrs. King borrowed money from the clerk and she owed that money to the clerk.

Fear of higher rates and higher Treasury yields are the main factors driving markets these days. We've been used to low rates for such a long time that now it seems the market was caught by surprise with yields at these levels. We might see less borrowing and less spending as a result.

Public business-related sectors such as utilities are the most negatively influenced by interest rates because their borrowing is very high.

Reaching $500 million this quickly is a testament to the quality of the state's college-savings program and the recognition by Oregonians that saving now is better than borrowing later,

People told consumer surveys they were miserable, but they were willing to borrow money to pursue a bargain,

Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper

George Soros

This asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers is a major source of instability in the global capitalist system and it needs to be corrected,