Quotes About Lending

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Because we are the largest lender in the manufactured homes sector and are also normally lending to lower-and-middle-income families, you might expect us to suffer heavy losses during a housing meltdown. But by sticking to old-fashioned loan policies — meaningful down payments and monthly payments with a sensible relationship to regular income — Clayton has kept losses to acceptable levels. It has done so even though many of our borrowers have had negative equity for some time.

I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating." --Alison Bechdel

There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.

Maggie, but he said the money was his. I lent him the jeep to get to the bus station.' 'Thanks for nothing,

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.

Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.

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 lend money to one of my people who is needy, do not be like a money-lender; charge him no interest."

"He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor."

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent,"

the first national economic collapse. The state banks, flush with federal deposits, were instructed to lend it freely, leading to runaway land speculation.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

We want to see more sources of alternative finance, from innovations in factoring such as MarketInvoice or in peer-to-peer lending such as Funding Circle which Labour local authorities are now using to support and invest in local businesses.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

The number one problem with Dodd-Frank is it's way too complicated, and it cuts back lending, so we want to strip back parts of Dodd-Frank that prevent banks from lending, and that will be the number one priority on the regulatory side.

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

The records of a relatively small bank, C. Hoare's & Co. in London, which have survived intact from the period 1702–1724, illustrate this point. Though the bank did lend money to aristocrats and lords, fully two-thirds of the biggest borrowers from Hoare's over this period were not from the privileged social classes.

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The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

Germany only paid, or was able to pay, the indemnities later extorted because the United States was profusely lending money to Europe, and especially her. In fact, during the three years 1926 to 1929 the United States was receiving back in the form of debt-installment indemnities from all quarters about one-fifth of the money which she was lending to Germany with no chance of repayment. However, everybody seemed pleased and appeared to think this might go on for ever.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.