Quotes About Lending

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

The number one priority is going to be make sure that banks lend.

You can't grow unless your banking system is expanding and you are extending credit.

In the course of the panic, he provided almost $6 million to fifty-eight individuals and firms who were turned down by banks and desperately needed his intervention.

However, with the advent of the printing press, more people could read the Bible for themselves and a more sophisticated understanding grew in the public while religious control waned, especially in highly developed nations. Today, the favored control mechanism is through the lending of money.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilisation. Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.

If we want the banks to lend - and we all do - if we want the economy to expand - and we all do - do you really want to start confining the banks in their ability to make profits in order to generate more capital to lend out to the people?

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

Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.

The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs, Umegat had said. Yes? It seemed to Cazaril that this bargain ought to run two ways. If people stopped lending the gods their wills by which to do miracles, eh, what would the gods do about it then?

Hamilton opposed the vogue for state banks that proliferated in the 1790s, less from narrow political motives than from a fear that competition among banks would dilute credit standards and invite imprudent lending practices as bankers vied for clients.

Conocido, s. Persona a quien conocemos lo bastante para pedirle dinero prestado, pero no lo suficiente para prestarle. Grado de amistad que llamamos superficial cuando su objeto es pobre y oscuro, e íntimo cuando es rico y famoso.

To all the wolves of the world for lending their good name as a tangible symbol for our darkness.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.

Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.