Mortgage Quotes

• If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Years, Want

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• The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.

  Sherrie Levine

  Photography, Art, Men

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• Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny days and are almost never stress-tested for stormy weather. Securitization is an area that almost perfectly fits this description; markets for securitized assets such as subprime mortgages completely collapsed in 2008 and have not fully recovered. Ironically, the government is eager to restore the securitization markets back to their pre-collapse stature.

  Seth Klarman

  Stress, Government, Weather

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• Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

  Andrew Young

  Children, Taken, Ideas

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• Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Men, Vanity, Values

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• The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

  Dave Ramsey

  Taken, Home, Bmw

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• Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

  Mark Forsyth

  Taken, Pledge

  Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.214, Icon Books Ltd

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• Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

  Thomas Sowell

  Las Vegas, People, Saving

  "Taxpayers’ Trillion". www.nationalreview.com. September 24, 2008 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225751/taxpayers-trillion-thomas-sowell.

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• The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

  George Soros

  Creating, Agency, Risk

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• When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

  Eric Ripert

  Retirement, Kids, Responsibility

  "Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS + Le Bernardin's Numbers". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. January 14, 2011.

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• The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

  Steven Rattner

  Retirement, Income, Needs

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• Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 04, 2012

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• Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Gold, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.74, Penguin

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• And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

  John Cornyn

  Stay Strong, Home, Unemployment

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage and the Great Recession, or the technology bubble and the early 2000s recession. There are no such imbalances today.

  Mark Zandi

  Technology, Thinking, Imbalance

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

  Cookie Mueller

  Cancer, Clothes, Worry

  Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail

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• The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Nice, Reality

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• There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

  Denis Waitley

  Sweet, Children, Struggle

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• Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

  Scott D. Cook

  Home, Simple, People

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• Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

  Sarah Beeny

  Mean, Night, Risk

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• Ask most people who live in a home and have a mortgage on it whether they own their own home and the answer is almost guaranteed to be a resounding 'yes'. Yet it's the wrong answer. Technically speaking, until they have paid the mortgage off, they don't own it. Herein lies the difference between reality and illusion, between ownership and control. This confusion lies not only at the individual level, but also at the heart of government thinking.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Lying, Home, Heart

  Dambisa Moyo (2011). “How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

  Aden Young

  Balance, Want, Sometimes

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• We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.

  Rick Santorum

  Gasoline Prices, People, Pay

  "Santorum blames 2008 mortgage crisis on $4-per-gallon gas" by Daniel Strauss, thehill.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Artist, Glasses, Names

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• I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

  Vin Diesel

  Team, Bullshit, Driving Fast

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