Credit Worthiness Quotes

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.

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

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.

You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

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

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

So what is the role that credit default swaps can play in an economy? Well my feeling is that if these things actually will now be traded on either exchanges or some kind of central clearing, they are going to be a very good measure of the credit worthiness of different companies.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.

The admissions standards are so low that almost anybody who has a credit card that isn’t maxed out can get into the programs.

Remember that credit is money.

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.