Best Lending Quotes

If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

Why don’t we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

That’s always the way in this world. The chappies you’d like to lend money to won’t let you, whereas the chappies you don’t want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Most banks – with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here – have decided that they can’t make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they’re going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

There’s another way we are getting behind business – by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it’s time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain’s small businesses again.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I’ll be all right as long as there’s a lending library.

If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit.

We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s nuts.

North Carolina’s approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Ending lending is beginning winning.

All children can do things to help, whether how big or small – by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital account transactions and bank lending. The focus is on deregulation, not on finding the right regulatory structure.

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

Talk what you will of the Jews,–that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That 10 cents on the dollar that the African American family used to have crashed down to 5 cents on the dollar, given the focus of predatory lending on the African American community and the degree to which they were really devastated by the foreclosure crisis. So yeah, I think there is a lot of disappointment out there.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you’ll never get paid back.

A money-lender–he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

I, who ne’erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing’s much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.