Lending Money Quotes

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.

How long can interest rates stay negative? Think about this. Not only are you lending your money to governments, but you're paying them interest for the privilege of doing so.

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.

... maybe we can all agree on one lesson from the Greek crisis, namely that, to maintain a friendship, you should lend only as much money as you are ready to give away anyway.

Our role as producers is mainly limited to borrowing money from friends when we run short of cash.

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.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!

No person shall practice usury at a rate of more than one twelfth.

I could write a book - if I could write, ha ha - about how many times I've been ripped off lending money to people. I'm an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.

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.

The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"

Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.