Top 207 Lending Quotes & Sayings

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

Lending rate is a function of both liquidity as well as credit demand.

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.

In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

Hudson Taylor and Charles Spurgeon believed that Romans prohibits debt altogether. However, if going into debt is always sin, it's difficult to understand why Scripture gives guidelines about lending and even encourages lending under certain circumstances. Proverbs says "the borrower is servant to the lender." It doesn't absolutely forbid debt, but it's certainly a strong warning.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

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.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.

Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices. That's crazy.

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

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

I have always said that a bank's lending rates do not only depend on rate cuts - it is just one signal.

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

The number one problem with Dodd-Frank is it's way too complicated, and it cuts back lending, so we want to strip back parts of Dodd-Frank that prevent banks from lending, and that will be the number one priority on the regulatory side.

Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital account transactions and bank lending. The focus is on deregulation, not on finding the right regulatory structure.

Our servicemembers are focused every day on serving our country. It's our job to ensure that they have everything they need to do their jobs to the best of their ability. That must include effective consumer protections against predatory lending, already afforded under the Military Lending Act, for our men and women in uniform and their families.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I am committed to lending my voice and participating in action campaigns to support the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals that must be achieved by 2030.

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

I've been focused on the West Coast economy and being a banker and lending in these markets.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

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

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

People need to know that by donating, coaching, and just lending support, anyone can become part of the wonderful global family.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

There are two issues that people sometimes confuse, but they're very closely related. There is the strength and the stability of the American financial system. And it's very important that that system remain stable and remain strong and lending is very important to consumers. Secondly, the economy. And what has gone on in financial system is impacting the economy. And as the economy is turning down, it is very important that lending continue to be available and be available to consumers. So what we're doing with this facility is to support - is to support consumer lending.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

We should redefine the metric for effective lending, viz., prioritise loans to enterprises, which will generate more employment.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

It's all kind of just all of us coming together and all lending a hand on what we think will make it a good movie.

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'

Ending lending is beginning winning.

'Muntazir' has a very feel-good vibe to it. It's Strings' signature composition, especially the pre-chorus. I thoroughly enjoyed lending my vocals to it.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.