Lending Money Quotes

• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.72, Cosimo Classics

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Smell, Saving

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• 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

  Stranger, Neighbor, Borrowing Money

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• People cannot live by lending money to one another.

  John Ruskin

  Money, People, Lending

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• 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

  Acting, World, Ancient

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Money, Jobs, Kids

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• 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

  Money, Ideas, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Hospitality, Influence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.153

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• 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

  Records, Sovereign, Lending

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Christian, Teacher, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.79, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Fans, Lending, Mets

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• I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Change, Money

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• 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

  Ducks, Want, Lending

  Interview with Gordon Brown, The Sun, December 11, 2009.

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• 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

  Jobs, Kids, Order

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• 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

  Real, Risk, Done

  "Charlie Rose" with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. November 25, 2008.

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

  Josh Billings

  Writing, Poverty, Wealth

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• 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

  College, Government, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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