Loan Quotes - Page 10

• The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.

  William Cobbett

  Race, Bankers, Employment

  Political Register, July 10-17, 1802.

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Credit

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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• Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

  Greil Marcus

  Trying, Movement, Youth

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

  Al Franken

  Practice, Becoming, Mortgage

  Sen. Franken Speaks on Senate Floor in Support of Richard Cordray to Head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, www.gpo.gov. December 7, 2011.

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• I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Government, People

  The third and final presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

  Sue Grafton

  Jobs, Trying, Facts

  ""K" Is for Killer". Book by Sue Grafton, 1994.

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• A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Giving, Mind

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like this, I can just stop. I can't throw books out, even if I think they're crummy. I feel like I've got to give it to the library. I've got to loan it to somebody, or I keep it on my shelf. It's like a plant.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, Thinking, Giving

  "The Authors' Roundtable". Interview with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creating, People, Pay

  "Grameen Bank II: Designed to Open New Possibilities". Monograph by Muhammad Yunus, 2002.

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• Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee. (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with a few years of total darkness to make up for it.

  Erik Naggum

  Years, Darkness, Guarantees

  "The Long, Painful History of Time" by Erik Naggum, naggum.no. October 11, 1990.

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• Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

  George Bailey

  Merry Christmas, Old Buildings, House

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• There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

  Rand Paul

  Wall, Dollars, Conservative

  "Transcript for Rand Paul Rides Filibuster Popularity to CPAC", abcnews.go.com.

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• I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.

  Eric Thomas

  Dream, Real, Support You

  Source: www.jairekrobbins.com

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• There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, People, Debt

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

  Aubrey McClendon

  Running, Example, Would Be

  "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Friendship, Needs, Way

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• This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you're pursuing is closed.

  Craig Watts

  Hurt, Missing, Balance

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• In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

  Tim Buck

  War, Men, Self

  "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.

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• And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Debt, Want

  "State of the Union 2015: Full transcript". edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Only morons start a business on a loan?

  Mark Cuban

  Moron

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• There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Three Things, Dollars

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like a cross between having a pelvic examination while applying for a small business loan. First dates should require anesthesia, and in some states they do.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Dating, Brain, Different

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

  Andrea McLean

  Taken, House, Done

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• If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

  Peter DeLuise

  Father, Shopping, Serious

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