quotes about Lending
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My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
-- Alan SugarSource : Interview with Gordon Brown, The Sun, December 11, 2009.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
-- Ben Stein -
You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.
-- Evan Esar -
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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
-- George Soros -
I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.
-- James ChanosSource : "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.
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Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.
-- James Ellis -
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
-- John Buchanan Robinson -
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
-- John Oliver -
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
-- John Ruskin -
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It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.
-- Lewis Thompson Preston -
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.
-- Periyar E. V. RamasamySource : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 514, 2005.
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Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.
-- Twyla Tharp -