Lending Quotes

• 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.

  Stephen King

  Book, Long, Library

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

  Vince Cable

  Loss, Gambling, Years

  "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Focus, Relief

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Borrowing is not much better than begging.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Begging You, Borrowing, Beggary

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1950). “Nathan the Wise: (Nathan der Weise)”

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• The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Giving, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2780, e-artnow

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• When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Character, People

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

  Doris Lessing

  Begging You, Stealing, Interest

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

  Lewis Thompson Preston

  Quality, Quantity

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• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Poetry, Shadow

  James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). “Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes”, p.511

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• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Ideas, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Community, Today, Tough

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• Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

  John Ruskin

  Land, Taxation, Literature

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

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Credit, Amount

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Practice, Accountability, Needs

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• 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.

  David Cameron

  Business, Way, Favour

  "Conservative party conference - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  People, Today, Facts

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• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Vic Snyder

  Country, Journey, Iraq

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

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Balance, Glitter, Weak

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• 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.

  Mel Watt

  Law, Leader, North Carolina

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• People cannot live by lending money to one another.

  John Ruskin

  Money, People, Live By

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• No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Hospitality, Influence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.153

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  The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Government, Hands

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