166 Lending Quotes
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Famous Lending Quotes
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. — Philip Gibbs
You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money. — Yiddish Proverbs
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most. — Proverbs
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. — Bob Hope
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
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. — Michel de Montaigne
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
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
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz
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
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
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — Benjamin Franklin
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
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
Short Lending Quotes
- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony
- Luck never gives; it only lends. — Scottish Proverbs
- Happiness does not give, it only lends. — Danish Proverbs
- Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling
- LFC is not servicing debt other than stadium debt. — John W. Henry
- O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! — William Shakespeare
- A credit bubble is a short-term solution that creates long-term problems. — Russell Napier
- I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Distance lends enchantment to the view. — Mark Twain
- Credit bubbles cause prices to rise; they do not themselves raise prices. — Russell Napier
Money 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
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
Every financial crisis is made out of excess money and credit. — Russell Napier
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
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
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
Book Lending Quotes
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. — Stephen King
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts. — Jo Walton
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them — Anatole France
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. — Anatole France
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
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman
Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes." — Dan Millman
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction. — Akhil Sharma
Lending A Helping Hand Quotes
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
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
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. — Eric Maisel
Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need. — Michael Jackson
Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary. — George Rogers Clark
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 material items and monetary wealth than others less fortunate. I believe in sharing, assisting, and just lending a helping hand to people. — Michael Jackson
We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand. — Marty Natalegawa
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. — Aeschylus
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
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
Lending A Hand Quotes
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
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. — Hippocrates
I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand — Greg Louganis
Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in;Lend a Hand. — Edward Everett Hale
Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand. — Edward Everett Hale
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event. — Mac Barnett
The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart. — Robin Sharma
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan
Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood. — Robert Alan
I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent. — Kim Kardashian
Lend Quotes
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
God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokenized. It will create a deeper market with improved price discovery and should increase the value of those assets. — David O. Sacks
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. — Charlotte Bronte
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy. — George Crabbe
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. — Kurt Vonnegut
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. — Jose Marti
Bitcoin is a bank that can't lend out, invest, gamble, dilute, debase, freeze, or seize your assets. It works all the time, everywhere in the world, and is unstoppable. — Michael Saylor
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. — Scott Hamilton
Lending Money Quotes
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
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. — Jesse H. Jones
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
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
Lend A Hand Quotes
It's all kind of just all of us coming together and all lending a hand on what we think will make it a good movie. — Boti Bliss
We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can. — Tony Abbott
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means. — Michel de Montaigne
There is always someone there to lend a hand. — Greg Louganis
I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand. — Cat Cora
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out. — Rod Stewart
Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand. — Swami Vivekananda
People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts. — Robin Sharma
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way. — Bob Dylan
To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end. — Brennan Manning
Borrow Lend Quotes
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow. — William Dunbar
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce
Borrowing is not much better than begging. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more. — André Aciman
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. — Ambrose Bierce
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. — Charles Lamb
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. — Oliver Goldsmith
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. — Rudyard Kipling
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson
Bank Loan Quotes
Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent. — James Chanos
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks. — Virginia Foxx
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring. — John Adams
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. — Muhammad Yunus
Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying 'yes' too frequently. — James Grant
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks. — Bernie Sanders
And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that. — Michael Bloomberg
You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it. — Evan Esar
In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes. — Robert G. Wilmers
People Writing About Lending
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 Mark Twain |
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 Philip Gibbs |
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 Yiddish Proverbs |
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 Georg C. Lichtenberg |
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 Proverbs |
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 Bob Hope |
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More Lending 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
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. — Lewis H. Lapham
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
In Africa, there were few plants willing to be domesticated, and even fewer animals. Much of the land consists of jungle, swamp, desert, or steep-sided plateau, none of which lend themselves to the growing of wheat or rice, or sustaining herds of sheep. Africa's rhinos, gazelles, and giraffes stubbornly refused to be beasts of burden. — Tim Marshall
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared. — Bertie Ahern
Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed. — Beverly LaHaye
We need a resilient, well-capitalized, well-regulated financial system that is strong enough to withstand even severe shocks and support economic growth by lending through the economic cycle. — Jerome Powell
The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning. — Tim Burton
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.' — Dilys Laing
Leverage has the potential to turn a reasonably good investment into disastrous gambling. — Naved Abdali
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A credit bubble occurs when there is a breakdown between the willingness to save and the willingness to invest. — Russell Napier
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