Lending Quotes

98 quotes by 91 authors

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities… — Vince Cable
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth… — Vince Cable
There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay… — David Cameron
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called… — Graydon Carter
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson
People cannot live by lending money to one another. — John Ruskin
Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur… — Dennis Kucinich
Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest… — Maria Theresa
I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of… — Michael Jackson
When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have… — Ian Macfarlane
I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action. — Phil Gramm
North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in… — Mel Watt
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We… — Vikram Pandit
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. — George Soros
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities. — Alan Greenspan
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. — Martin Wolf

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