“The secret of high finance… if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.”

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Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.”

Dallin H. Oaks (1932) Apostle of the LDs Church

Joy and Mercy http://www.lds.org/ensign/1991/11/joy-and-mercy, Dallin H. Oaks, November 1991

“I would need a loan to paint Caligula.”

Francesco Filippini (1853–1895) Italian impressionist painter

Mi gh’averia bisogn de lé… per fa el Caligola <br class="br">Trattoria della Coppa, Ponte Vetere di Milano, 1880 <br class="br">Francesco Filippini, Francesco Filippini il dossier di uno splendido pittore https://www.stilearte.it/francesco-filippini-il-dossier-uno-splendido-pittore-morto-a-42-anni-di-tisi/, Stilarte.it, November 4, 2015.

“You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

No Direction Home (2005)

“Reckless people have deluded themselves that this was a subprime crisis. But we have problems with credit-card debt, student-loan debt, auto loans, commercial real estate loans, home-equity loans, corporate debt and loans that financed leveraged buyouts… We have a subprime financial system, not a subprime mortgage market.”

Nouriel Roubini (1958) American economist

Quoted in Stephen Mihm, "Dr. Doom," http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pessimist-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times (2008-08-15).

“When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won’t think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money.
They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.”

Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne

Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody

“We need to have the phone lines melted this week. We need people to melt the phone lines. Not to the House members, you don't need to call them, and you don't need to call the Republican Senators. It's the Democrat Senators that we need to melt their phone lines.”

Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician

2000s

“Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”

Walter Slezak (1902–1983) actor

Quoted as "Actor Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses"": in LOOK magazine, Vol. 21 number 14 (July 9, 1957) p. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=-NERAQAAMAAJ&q=%22impress+people%22, in LOOK's permanent category of quotes "WHAT THEY ARE SAYING". <br class="br">Already in 1905 W.T. O'Connor had stated that advertising was "The gentle art of persuading the public to believe that they want something they don't need" in "Advertising Definitions", in Ad Sense, Vol. 19, No. 2 (August 1905), p. 121 http://books.google.com/books?id=zPRKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22W.+T.+O%27CONNOR%22, and in 1931 one finds Will Rogers being quoted with advertising "as something that makes you spend money you haven't got for things you don't want." But this complete statement with the finale "to impress people you don't like" seems to have originated with Slezak. However, Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/21/impress/ instead traces the quotation back to American humorist Robert Quillen, who wrote in 1928: "Americanism: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like."

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

Bob Hope (1903–2003) American comedian, actor, singer and dancer

“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”

Michael Lewis book The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter One, A Secret Origin Story, p. 14

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