Loan Quotes

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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.

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

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

Allah curses who requests usury and who gives him usury, the one who writes down the usury transaction and its two witnesses

Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it's the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

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

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

If you are a borrower, the more you borrow, the more it costs.

If you're considering going into student debt, I encourage you to seek the Lord's will through the reading and study of His Word, prayer, and the wise counsel of others before you make the decision to take out a loan.

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.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

I'm short-selling my house. I have more loans than I can sell the house for. The house will not go into foreclosure. It will be a short sale. I can't afford the house as I once could.

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.

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

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

I felt bad for Newcastle when they lost their 2005 FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United. They had loaned me out to Celtic, but I still had a lot of affection for them.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.