A Quote by Benjamin Graham

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Benjamin Graham

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Benjamin Graham
American - Economist
May 8, 1894 - September 21, 1976

Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?

Kiersten White

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.

Bill Dedman

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

Oliver Tambo

If we want the banks to lend - and we all do - if we want the economy to expand - and we all do - do you really want to start confining the banks in their ability to make profits in order to generate more capital to lend out to the people?

Scott Garrett

One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend. Then the firms that have expanded cannot get credit to pay for the factors of production necessary for the completion of the investment projects which they have already committed themselves. Because they cannot pay their bills, they sell off their inventories cheap. Then comes the panic, the breakdown. And the depression starts.

Ludwig von Mises

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Albert Camus

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Paloma Faith

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

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Oliver Goldsmith

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

Patrick Rothfuss

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

Jean Chatzky

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

James Ellis

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.