Lending Quotes

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

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.

If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be a usurer to him, nor shall you lay upon him usury.

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

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

Mexico has very solid financial institutions, with good levels of capitalism, but they’re not lending much.

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

Although the Fed has subjected banks’ portfolios to stress tests to measure the effect of rising interest rates and investment losses, the results might not have shown the whole picture: U.S. banks, particularly small and medium-sized ones, may not have enough capital to maintain solvency and liquidity should their risky loans and investments fail in large numbers. The same is true of the stress tests that the ECB has performed in Europe,

Separating out banks and investment banks right now under Glass-Steagall would have very big implications to the liquidity and the capital markets and banks being able to perform necessary lending.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

I think that this is the most significant financial crisis in the post-War period for the United States, and it has in fact a global reach.... I think it is extraordinarily important to understand that, as we have seen in many previous examples of different countries and different times, choking up of credit is like taking the lifeblood away from the economy.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender

God has permitted buying and selling and forbidden usury …. those who revert to usury are doomed to everlasting hellfire …

When all things are considered, it will be found best for the Nation to leave the Borrowers and the Lender to make their own Bargains, according to the Circumstances they lie under

No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

If any of thy brethren be poor …, thou shalt lend him sufficient.

Moneys imployed at Interest in this Nation, are not near the Tenth part, disposed to Trading People, wherewith to manage their Trades; but are for the most part lent for the supplying of Luxury, and to support the Expence of Persons, who though great Owners of Lands, yet spend faster than their Lands bring in; and being loath to sell, choose rather to mortgage their Estates.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

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

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.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.