Quotes About Lending

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Our approach on lending has always been that we will lend to India-linked assets, because that's the risk that we understand, and that is the business that has been doing very well.

Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

Massive layoffs at financial firms. Banks refusing to lend while other banks were closing their doors. Congress chasing its tail. Obama blaming Bush. McCain/Palin blaming the Democrats.

Borrow money from pessimists...they don't expect it back.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

The amount of new lending was mind-boggling: between 2003 and 2005, outstanding mortgage debt in America grew by $3.7 trillion, which was roughly equal to the entire value of all American real estate in the year 1990 ($3.8 trillion). In other words, Americans in just two years had borrowed the equivalent of two hundred years' worth of savings.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

The aim of predatory lending in much of the world is to obtain labor to work off debts (debt peonage), to foreclose on the land of debtors, and in modern times to force debt-strapped governments to privatize natural resources and public infrastructure.

Modern creditors avert public cancellation of debts (and making banks a public utility) by pretending that lending provides mutual benefit in which the borrower gains – consumer goods now rather than later, or money to run a business or buy an asset that earns enough to pay back the creditor with interest and still leave a profit for the debtor.

In fact, they are not taught in any university departments: the dynamics of debt, and how the pattern of bank lending inflates land prices, or national income accounting and the rising share absorbed by rent extraction in the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector. There was only one way to learn how to analyze these topics: to work for banks. Back in the 1960s there was barely a hint that these trends would become a great financial bubble.

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years.

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

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend." Besides, I did

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As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend." - Kvothe the Bloodless (The Name of The Wind)

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.