I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. – Jill Lepore
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. – Abu Bakr
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. – Barbara Ehrenreich
Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures. – Bill Dedman
Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement. – Barbara Corcoran
It has not been easy for me. And, you know, I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. – Donald Trump
Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it’s easier for women to enter the micro sector. – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most – who struggle to make ends meet – too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products. – Elizabeth Warren
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets. – Charles Vest
The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown’s thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can’t ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue. – Pete Hamill
Peer-to-peer lenders originally sought to attract retail investors to its loan marketplace, but the lack of high-returning assets elsewhere in the market has made these platforms increasingly attractive to major asset managers and hedge funds. – Kayla Tausche
When SoFi launched in 2011, it focused squarely on the burgeoning student loan market – a market that, unlike housing, had no viable option to refinance both federal and private student loans from higher interest-rate eras. – Kayla Tausche
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration’s well-intentioned mortgage modification program. – Sheldon Whitehouse
The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis. – Viktor Orban
Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it – even on your deathbed. – Suze Orman
