Quotes About Lending Money

#1. Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

Michael Lewis

#2. We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist.

Mike Rowe

#3. No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

Samuel Johnson

#4. People cannot live by lending money to one another.

John Ruskin

#5. there is nothing safer than lending money to people with property. Why? Because if they default on the loan, you can repossess the house. Even if they run away,

Niall Ferguson

#6. Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Josh Billings

#7. My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Alan Sugar

#8. I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.

Hillary Clinton

#9. The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

William Greider

#10. 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.

Muhammad Yunus

#11. 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,

Mike Rowe

#12. When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. 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 Chanos

#14. 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

#15. The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.

Martin Wolf

#16. John was prosecuted (or threatened with prosecution - the records are sometimes a touch unclear) for trading in wool and for money-lending, both highly illegal activities.

Bill Bryson

#17. The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Jon Meacham

#18. When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

George Soros

#19. 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.

Mohamed El-Erian

#20. No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Barbara Tuchman

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

John Buchanan Robinson

#22. Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#23. 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

#24. Talk what you will of the Jews,
that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

John Selden

#25. 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.

P.G. Wodehouse

#26. The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Haruki Murakami

#28. Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

Elizabeth Warren

#29. Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.

Bob Diamond

#30. In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#31. You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Meredith Whitney

#32. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Joseph Addison