Lending Money Quotes Of All Time
1. 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
3. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. -William Shakespeare
5. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -Robert Orben
6. 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. -William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
8. 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
9. No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. -Samuel Johnson
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system. -C. S. Lewis
14. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. -Josh Billings
20. 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
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