106 Lending Money Quotes
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Famous Lending Money Quotes
You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money. — Yiddish Proverbs
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. — Bob Hope
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most. — Proverbs
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. That's nuts. — Mike Rowe
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz
The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it. — Horace Kephart
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — Benjamin Franklin
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess — Irving Fisher
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. — Robert Frost
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. — Mark Twain
Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends. — Irwin Corey
Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer. — Grant Cardone
Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. — Scottish Proverbs
Short Lending Money Quotes
- Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop. — American Proverbs
- Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand. — Japanese Proverbs
- The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. — Bible Proverbs
- To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling
- In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others. — Maimonides
- Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin
- The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
- The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. — Ambrose
- A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. — Publilius Syrus
Lending Money To Friends Quotes
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other. — George Jean Nathan
Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it. — Benjamin Disraeli
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? — William Shakespeare
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory. — Sam Levenson
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. — Benjamin Franklin
What Is Money Quotes
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett
In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy. — Trevor Noah
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. — Joni Mitchell
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody. — Hopsin
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? — Ayn Rand
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. — Phil Crosby
Lending Quotes
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. — Thomas Jefferson
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return. — Katharine Hepburn
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system. — Ella Baker
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony
They say if you fall, someone who loves you will lend a hand for you, I have 8 pairs of hands always ready to hold me back up when I stumble — Jessica Jung
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. — Ken Mehlman
Luck never gives; it only lends. — Scottish Proverbs
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
Happiness does not give, it only lends. — Danish Proverbs
Don't Borrow Money Quotes
Being popular is the most important thing in the world! — Homer
I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it. — Robert Kiyosaki
Today, people are having to spend so much of their money, to acquire a house and to get an education that they don't have enough to spend on goods and services, except by running into yet more debt on their credit cards and other borrowings. — Michael Hudson
When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it? — Moses Malone
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. — Lord Burleigh
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. — Warren Buffett
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it. — Warren Buffett
The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills. — Peter Schiff
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. — Sonny Bono
Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same. We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies. — Rand Paul
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More Lending Money Quotes
When the central bank manipulates the interest rate lower than the market clearing price by directing banks to create more money by lending, they are at once reducing the amount of savings available in society and increasing the quantity demanded by borrowers while also directing the borrowed capital toward projects which cannot be completed. — Saifedean Ammous
One simply cannot start from zero. If you want to start your own business, save some money or know someone who can lend you some. You may not need a huge amount, but those first bills must be covered – and then some. When I began, business practice was based on CBD – Cash Before Delivery – not COD Cash On Delivery. The same holds true in many cases today. — Estee Lauder
Every financial crisis is made out of excess money and credit. — Russell Napier
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
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads. — Elizabeth Warren
If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home. — John Paulson
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. — George Carlin
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
There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman. — Cary Grant
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. — Yiddish Proverbs
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare
People cannot live by lending money to one another. — John Ruskin
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. — George Soros
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 got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis. — Vikram Pandit
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. — Jesse H. Jones
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. — Henry Miller
Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory. — Unknown
There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It would be made up of unions, credit unions instead of banks. There would be no more lending at interest. There would be no more money lenders. — Dorothy Day
People tend to think that paying a debt is like going out and buying a car, buying more food or buying more clothes. But it really isn't. When you pay a debt to the bank, the banks use this money to lend out to somebody else or to yourself. The interest charges to carry this debt go up and up as debt grows. — Michael Hudson
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending. — Martin Wolf
Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent. — Ted Nicholas
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
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
When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey
The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay. — Michael Hudson
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
The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them to gamble. That particular style of restoration actually inhibits the economic recovery. — Joseph Stiglitz
And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money. — G. Edward Griffin
If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it. — Bob Hope
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it. — Mark Twain
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