Interest Quotes

I don’t believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Calvin dealt with the absolute prohibition upon lending money at interest (usury), for example, by arguing that it was merely an accommodation to the specific needs of a primitive society. Since there was no similarity between such a society and Geneva – interest is merely rent paid on capital, after all – he allowed lenders […]

In investing money the amount of interest you want should depend on whether you want to eat well or sleep well

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.