And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
Arthur Laffer

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing

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

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

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.
Lewis Thompson Preston

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

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.
Mel Watt

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.
Alexi Giannoulias

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

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

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.
Frank B. Kellogg

The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
Vic Snyder

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

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
David Cameron

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
Paul Wellstone

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