James Grant Quotes About Loan

• The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.

  James Grant

  Running, Art, Safety

• 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

  Weed, Red Flags, Growth

• [T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

  James Grant

  Doubt, Banking, Firsts

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