Interest

Interest

Interest is a fee paid by a borrower of assets to the owner as a form of compensation for the use of the assets. It is most commonly the price paid for the use of borrowed money, or money earned by deposited funds.

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Famous quotes containing the word interest:

    “Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)