Quotes about Interest
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
— Ezekiel 18:17
Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.
— Matthew 25:27
Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
— Luke 19:23
erring on the side of the client when it comes to fees. Because you're interested in a long-term relationship with a client, it is in your best interest to show them that you are more focused on helping them than you are in maximizing your short-term revenue.
— Patrick Lencioni
Now imagine if I were to ask a room full of executives which they enjoy more: meetings or movies? They would probably think I was joking. And yet, meetings should be more interesting than movies because they have more inherent potential for passion and engagement than movies do.
— Patrick Lencioni
The only things she cared about were solitude and beauty, direct communication with God, and above all a safe distance from the world that she already knew all too well and that no longer held any interest for her.
— Paulo Coelho
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
— Jon Gordon
The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
— William Saroyan
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)
— Winston Churchill
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
— George Washington
Let us beware of the mistakes that C. S. Lewis described in Screwtape Letters. He says, "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence, the other is to believe and to feel an unhealthy interest in them! They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and they hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
— Corrie Ten Boom
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
— Anonymous