Interest Quotes

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

You know it is not in my Interest to pay the Principal; nor is it my Principal to pay the Interest.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Saving love doesn’t bring any interest.

Human beings are kind of interesting from birth until they reach the age of a year and a half. Then they are boring until they reach fifty. By that time they’re either completely defeated and fucked up, which makes them interesting again, or they’ve learned how to beat the game, and that makes them interesting […]

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy – all are pursuing their […]

$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000, by which time it will be worth nothing.