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Borrowing Quotes

Views on debt, spending, and borrowing ideas.

These borrowing quotes look mainly at money: whether taking on debt is wise depends on what it pays for, and several lines warn that heavy borrowing and spending rarely lead anywhere good. One quote even notes how dramatically national borrowing patterns shifted during a financial crisis.

Borrowing isn't inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Quotes by Peter Orszag

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

Quotes by Darin Strauss

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Frequently Asked Questions

Are these borrowing quotes only about money?
Mostly, yes, but one quote takes a different angle by comparing how memoirists and novelists borrow writing techniques from one another.
What do the quotes say about debt being good or bad?
One quote argues that taking on debt isn't automatically a problem; what matters is what the borrowed money is actually funding.
Is there a quote about a financial crisis?
Yes, one describes a period when private lending dried up and a government body ended up as the main borrower still active in the market.
Do any quotes link borrowing to prosperity?
One quote pushes back on the idea that borrowing and spending can build lasting prosperity, suggesting the opposite is closer to true.
What's the creative-writing quote about?
It asks whether novelists should pick up a few techniques from nonfiction writers, just as memoirists sometimes borrow storytelling tricks from fiction.

Not every quote here is about finance, though. One compares how memoir writers and novelists borrow techniques from each other's genres, showing that borrowing isn't only a financial habit but also a creative one.