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:

    “There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
    —F.H. (Francis Herbert)

    “There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “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)