Money Quote by Muhammad Yunus

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

— John Hume

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

— Anatole France

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

— Muhammad Yunus

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

— Mark Twain

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

— John Ruskin

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

— Carl Webb

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like…

— Jonathan Raymond

There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to a line…

— Joe Lonsdale

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they…

— Ben Stein

Small banks that lend to consumers are fine.

— Michael Hudson

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.

— Ralph George Hawtrey

“With the assistance of the unsecured bad credit loans poor credit borrowers can easily procure the desired amount of funds regardless of their negative…

— Johnson Smith