Quotes About Lending

From a portfolio perspective, liabilities act like negative assets. In other words, borrowing by an individual offsets lending (ownership of bond or money-market funds) by that individual.

I always wonder how banks manage to go bankrupt at all considering they can just make up the money, and especially, what is stopping them from lending money to themselves.

IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

Usury was seen above all as an assault on Christian charity, on Jesus's injunction to treat the poor as they would treat the Christ himself, giving without expectation of return and allowing the borrower to decide on recompense (Luke 6:34

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

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.

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.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

As mulheres não são generosas quando o assunto é emprestar dinheiro e a maioria daquelas que a cercavam ou estavam na mesma situação ou não faziam a menor ideia das necessidades que ela passava.

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

My personal opinion is that when the economy does well, anybody who has a deposit franchise will survive and grow because how can you lend if you do not have a deposit franchise?

As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to provide liquidity and support credit market functioning, including the establishment of a number of emergency lending facilities and the creation or extension of currency swap agreements with 14 central banks around the world.

Marcus Goldman in 1869 launched what would become Goldman, Sachs & Company and pioneered the use of what is known today as commercial paper. In return for lending a merchant, say, $900, Goldman would receive a written promise from the merchant to pay back $1,000. That paper could then be traded like a security.

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

Niether a borrower nor a lender be.

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

When I was born, my father owned a business called a 'reading circle'; folders containing an assortment of magazines were lent to customers for one week, then recollected and lent out again. The older the folder, the lower was the fee. This was a flourishing branch of industry.

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

Banks provide payment systems, core deposit and lending facilities that enable us to manage our day to day affairs.

The FHA was particularly concerned with preventing school desegregation. Its manual warned that if children "are compelled to attend school where the majority or a considerable number of the pupils represent a far lower level of society or an incompatible racial element, the neighborhood under consideration will prove far less stable and desirable than if this condition did not exist," and mortgage lending in such neighborhoods would be risky.