“Borrowing to build factories is not the economic equivalent of borrowing to buy television sets, and it’s amazing just how few modern economists can see the difference…Borrowing to produce is the way poor countries become rich. Borrowing to consume is the way rich countries become poor. A vivid example of the latter is the stream of container ships unloading at U. S. ports and going back empty because we have nothing to ship.”

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 6, The lawyers get involved, p. 134

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 43 (p. 445)

Source: The Road

The Beginning of Time (1996)

Introduction to New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

22 September 1830.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Context: A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection; and trust more to your imagination than to your memory.