Credit Quotes:

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

topic: Jealousy, Credit, Accepting

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

- Adam Carolla

topic: Cards, Use, Credit

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

- Alan Bennett

topic: Hull, Credit, Moral

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

- Alan Keyes

topic: Cutting, Government, Credit, Spending Cuts, Credit Card

Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

- Albert Mohler

source: Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books

topic: Christian, Tourists, Credit, Lead In

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

- Aldrich Ames

source: Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.

topic: Tasks, Credit, Uncertain

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

- Alex Comfort

topic: Naughty, Cards, Credit

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Team, Credit

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Finals, Credit, Redemption

To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: House, Would Be, Credit, Solicitude, Time And Patience

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Credit, World, Knaves

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Credit, Done, World

Some of you may remember me as the 'Doritos Girl' from that Super Bowl commercial a while back, but I've been lucky enough to have gotten a few more credits under my belt since then!

- Ali Landry

source: Source: www.hbook.com

topic: Girl, Lucky, Credit, Doritos

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

- Allen Lacy

topic: Needs, Credit, Unexpected

So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

- Ally Carter

topic: Dad, Hot, Credit

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

- Althea Gibson

source: Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

topic: Country, Tennis, Credit

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

- Andrew Tobias

topic: Risk, Cards, Credit, Credit Card

If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

- Anna Olson

topic: Giving, Anxiety, Credit, Giving Yourself

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

- Anne Carson

topic: Doubt, Credit, Divine, Doubt Me, Good Sense

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Doctors, Physicians, Credit, Probing

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Doe, Saint, Credit

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Color, Credit, Impossible, Crosswords

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Desert, Credit, Each Day

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

- Archibald Alexander

source: Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

topic: Believe, Men, Credit

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Credit, Dare, Endure

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

- Asghar Farhadi

topic: Emotional, Credit, Want

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Credit, Influence, Stills

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Satisfaction, Firsts, Credit, Truck Driver

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Credit, World, Investment

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

- Barack Obama

topic: Three, Cards, Credit

How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

- Barbara Marciniak

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Credit, Discredit

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Men, Thinking, Credit

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

- Bellamy Young

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Credit, Done, Steps

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

- Ben Affleck

topic: People, Perception, Credit

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

- Ben Stein

topic: Law, People, Credit, Credit Default Swap

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Growth, Credit, Plant, Slow Growth

Remember that credit is money.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Money, Credit, Remember

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Men, Pioneers, Credit

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

- Benjamin Whichcote

topic: Men, Credit, Letters, Livelihood

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

- Betty White

topic: Trying, Actors, Credit

I never share credit or desserts.

- Beverly Sills

topic: Credit, Dessert, Share

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

- Beverly Sills

topic: Inspirational, Credit, Blame

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

- Bill Janklow

topic: Cards, Machines, Credit

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

- Black Francis

topic: Giving, Credit, Toes

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

- Blythe Masters

source: "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

topic: Believe, Tools, Credit, Credit Default Swap

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

- Bob Cousy

topic: Basketball, Fans, Credit

God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives.

- Bob Coy

topic: Credit, Deserve

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

- Bob Thaves

topic: Echoes, Credit, Money Talks

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

- Bow Wow

source: "Bow Wow has big love for the big screen:'acting is my number-one priority'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 10, 2008.

topic: Acting, Credit, Reason

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

- Brian Tracy

topic: People, Credit, Blame

Yes is like credit, No is like cash.

- C.J. Langenhoven

topic: Credit, Cash

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

- Camilla Belle

topic: Credit, Lines, My Family

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Successful, Advice, Credit, Adviser

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.

- Chad Hurley

topic: People, Information, Credit, Information Overload, Curator

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

- Charlene Weir

source: Charlene Weir (1992). “The Winter Widow”, p.42, Macmillan

topic: Credit, Embarrassment, Feels, Shabby

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

- Charles Churchill

source: 'Night' (1761) l. 311

topic: Lying, Giving, Credit

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Children, Arrogance, Credit

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

- Charles Krauthammer

source: "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007.

topic: Giving, Stupidity, Credit

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Achievement, Credit, Fortune

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

- Charles Lyell

topic: Money, Credit, Debit, Accountants

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

- Charles Marion Russell

topic: Credit, Faults, Talent, Birthmarks

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

- Cheech Marin

source: "English Only! Part 2" by Cheech Marin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

topic: Country, Credit, Proud, Multicultural

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

- Cheryl Strayed

source: Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Art, Jobs, Credit, Great Job, Essayists

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Golf, Wife, Credit

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

- Chris Davis

topic: Player, Grandfather, Credit

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

- Chris Kyle

topic: Past, Navy, Credit, Snipers

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

- Chris Rock

topic: People, Cards, Credit, Credit Card, Foreclosure

I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.

- Claude Brown

topic: Car, Flags, Credit, Foreclosure, Red Flags

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

- Clay Shirky

source: Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.48, Penguin UK

topic: Simple, Credit, Projects

Success is not measured by who gets credit. Success is measured by what gets done.

- Connie Morella

topic: Credit, Done, Success Is Measured By, Success Is Measured, Success Is Not Measured

That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.

- Courtney Love

topic: Years, Credit, Faces

Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: Credit, Might, Blame

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: One Day, Credit, Blame

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.

- Craig Watts

topic: Thinking, Cards, Credit, Affected, Credit Card

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

- Cy Coleman

topic: Song, Artist, Credit

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

- Damien Hirst

topic: Cards, Credit, Hitting

If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?

- Dan Miller

topic: Scratches, Credit, Wow

President Obama deserves credit for building what you call the largest coalition to fight terror.

- Dana Perino

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Fighting, President, Credit

Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

- Debora Spar

topic: Inspiring, Children, Credit

The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

- Deborah Butterfield

topic: Healthy, Disease, Credit, Debit, Medical Science

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

- Denis Waitley

source: Twitter post from May 30, 2012

topic: Responsibility, Achievement, Credit, Accepting Responsibility

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

- Dennis Hughes

topic: Technology, Cards, Credit, Processors

The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.

- Denver Moore

source: Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Giving, Credit, Want, Unlovable

Except for Carrie Bradshaws in the opening credits of Sex and the City, I dont know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.

- Devin Kelley

topic: Sex, Cities, Credit, Trendy, Sex And The City

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

- Dianne Feinstein

topic: People, Credit, Belief

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

- Dorothy Height

topic: Worry, Credit, Done

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Men, Credit, Pay

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

- Duff Goldman

topic: Balance, Cards, Credit, Nervous Breakdown

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: School, Credit, Actors

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: "Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership". Book by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289, 1971.

topic: Responsibility, Giving, Credit, Subordinates

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

- Dwight Morrow

source: Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3

topic: People, Credit, World, Funny Boss Day, Boss's Day

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

- E. L. Doctorow

topic: Hands, Clerks, Credit, Credit Card

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Heart, Credit, Letters

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

- Edward Dahlberg

source: Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

topic: Mistake, Credit, World

Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Party, Animal, Credit

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Friendship, Credit, Literature

There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Credit, Facts, Surprising

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

topic: Knitting, Giving, Credit

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Success, Independence, Credit, Irony Of Life, Financial Independence

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

- Emma McLaughlin

source: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus (2009). “Nanny Returns: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

topic: Clothes, Cards, Credit

Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.

- Erasmus Darwin

topic: Drug, Credit, Disease

It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.

- Erwin W. Lutzer

source: Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.21, Moody Publishers

topic: Credit, Done, Way

My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

- Ester Dean

topic: Jobs, Credit, Want

In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

- Eugenie Clark

topic: Men, Credit, Fields

A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

- Evan Esar

topic: Cards, Credit, Trouble, Credit Card

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

- Evan Esar

topic: Cards, Credit, Pants

A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.

- Evan Esar

topic: Cards, Credit, Wallets, Credit Card

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe...

- Ezra Koenig

topic: Credit, Enough, Surreal

We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Simple, Political, Credit, High Level

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

topic: Lying, Superstitions, Credit

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

- Francine Rivers

topic: People, Giving, Credit, Wrong Reasons

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Views, Mind, Credit

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Gratitude, Credit, Debt, Facilitate

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Advice, Credit, Vices, Obstinacy

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

- Francoise Sagan

source: "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

topic: Credit, Finance, Rich

Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: Years, Important, Credit

I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: Cards, Use, Credit, Debit, Debit Cards

When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our ***** off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

- Frank Oz

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

topic: People, Three, Credit

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

- Frans de Waal

topic: Humanity, Credit, Given, Cooperatives

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

- Frans de Waal

source: Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Credit, Blame

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: People, Mind, Credit

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

- Gary Bauer

topic: Temptation, Crow, Credit

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

- Gene Spafford

source: "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.

topic: Car, Encryption, Credit, Park Benches, Cardboard Boxes

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

- Geoff Mulgan

source: "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

topic: Self, Cards, Credit, Effortless

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

- George D. Prentice

topic: People, Use, Credit, One Half, Owing A Debt

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

- Gilbert Parker

source: Gilbert Parker (1907). “The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago”, p.240, Library of Alexandria

topic: Fall, Credit, Want

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

- Graham Norton

source: "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

topic: Depth, Credit, Given

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

- Graydon Carter

topic: Book, People, Credit, Researchers

Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing — if only they have a will and begin.

- Gustav Landauer

source: Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.4, PM Press

topic: Land, House, Credit

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

- Guy Ritchie

topic: Ideas, The End Of The Day, Credit

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

- Hattie McDaniel

source: "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.

topic: Race, Credit, Motion Pictures

Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

- Henny Youngman

topic: Wife, Credit, Thieves, Gold Digger, Credit Card

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Cutting, Credit, Lasts

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.

- Henry Hazlitt

topic: Government, Order, Credit, Budget Deficit

Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser.

- Hersh Shefrin

topic: Regret, Decision, Credit, Adviser

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

- Hill Harper

topic: Cards, Credit, Payment, Credit Card

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Credit, Favors

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

- Horace

topic: Men, Wife, Credit, Pedigree

The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.

- Howard E. Wasdin

topic: Giving, Guy, Credit

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for,

- Hugh Jackman

source: FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Aug 27, 2012

topic: Giving, Credit, Ability

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

- Humphrey Bogart

topic: Giving, Justice, Credit

Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.

- Ian Macfarlane

topic: Years, Practice, Credit, Lenders

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

source: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.120, Verso

topic: Struggle, Civilization, Credit

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

- Irving Thalberg

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Giving, Credit

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

- Irving Thalberg

source: "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.

topic: Giving, Needs, Credit

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

- J. P. Morgan

topic: Gold, Credit

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

- Jack Kemp

topic: Secret, Credit, Taxes

Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

- Jacob Schiff

topic: Country, Credit, Adequate, Central Banks

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

- James Abourezk

topic: Government, Giving, Credit, Curry

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

- James Blish

topic: Men, Credit, Endure, Testimonial

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

- James Chanos

source: "The Long And Short Of Treasury Bond Yields". The Daily Reckoning, www.businessinsider.com. Novemebr 29, 2010.

topic: Excess, Credit, Bigger, Valuation

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

- James Ellis

topic: Luck, Credit, Action

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

- James J. Hill

source: James J. Hill (2001). “Highways of Progress”, p.307, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Country, Credit, Wealth, Predatory

Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.

- James Packer

topic: Cards, Credit, Want, Packers

Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

- Jamie Bell

source: "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

topic: Cards, Credit, Inbox

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

- Jane Bryant Quinn

topic: Smart, Cards, Credit, Sloppy, Credit Card

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

- Jane Porter

topic: Heart, Credit, Crime

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

- Jane Smiley

topic: Creating, United States, Credit, Creating Wealth, World History

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.

- Janet Yellen

source: "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yellen's Remarks at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.

topic: Practice, Credit, Inventory, Supply Chain, Staffing

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

- Jascha Heifetz

topic: Order, Credit, Violin

Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.

- Jean Chatzky

topic: Cards, Credit, Bills

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

- Jean Shepherd

source: Jean Shepherd (1978). “The Phantom of the Open Hearth: A Film for Television Co-Ordinated by Leigh Brown”, Doubleday Books

topic: Credit, Cash, Pay, God We Trust

The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

- Jean-Claude Juncker

topic: Credit, Pillars, Financial

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

- Jeff Merkley

source: "Elizabeth Warren Is the Right Person for the Job" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

topic: Long, Cards, Credit, Transactions

I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

- Jenna Lyons

source: "Glamour Women Of The Year Awards Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lena Dunham, Zaha Hadid And Others" by Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

topic: Women, Thinking, Credit

In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.

- Jennifer Morgan

topic: Country, Kyoto, Credit, Kyoto Protocol

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

- Jerome Kern

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Writing, Credit, Likes

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

- Jerry Bruckheimer

source: Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 15, 2003.

topic: Credit, Want, Pay

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Famous Inspirational, Giving, Credit, Credit Card, Gucci

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

- Jesse Torrey

source: Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186

topic: Smoking, Poison, Credit

Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

- Jessica Chastain

topic: Robins, Credit, Want, Generous Person

I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.

- Jessica Lynch

source: "Jessica Lynch Condemns Pentagon". news.bbc.co.uk. November 07, 2003.

topic: Credit

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

- Jim Cramer

topic: Mean, Giving, Credit

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

- Jim Cramer

topic: People, Cards, Credit

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

- Jimmy Cannon

topic: Race, Boxing, Credit

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

- Jimmy Savile

topic: Men, Our Words, Credit

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

- John Buchanan Robinson

topic: Credit, Modern

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

- John Buchanan Robinson

topic: Credit, Lending

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

- John D. MacDonald

source: John D MacDonald (2013). “The Deep Blue Goodbye: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.61, Random House

topic: Men, Cards, Credit

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

- John Engler

topic: Michigan, Credit, Rating

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

- John F. Carlson

topic: Trust, Feelings, Credit

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

- John Flavel

topic: Secret, Credit, Duty

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

- John Hume

source: "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

topic: Class, People, Credit, Poor Background, Credit Unions

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

- John Redwood

topic: Events, Credit, Cash

If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.

- Jonathan Gruber

source: "Daily Show", www.mrc.org. January 18, 2012.

topic: Mean, Citizens, Credit

Access to the national dividend is usually to be had only on condition of some productive service previously rendered or of some product previously sold. This condition is, in this case, not yet fulfilled. It will be fulfilled only after the successful completion of the new combinations. Hence this credit will in the meantime affect the price level.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

topic: Successful, Credit, Levels

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

topic: Life, Credit, Individual, Undaunted

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

- Julie Walters

topic: Feelings, Cards, Credit

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

- Kangana Ranaut

topic: Males, Credit, Actors

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

- Karen Mills

source: "Questioning The SBA: Karen Mills Fields Questions From Our Board Of Directors". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

topic: Credit, October, Small Business, Crunch, Credit Crunch

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .

- Karl Marx

topic: Expression, Credit, Usury

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

- Karl Shapiro

topic: Credit, Modern, Deals, Essays

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ...

- Katherine Anne Porter

source: Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.250, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: First Impression, Credit, Firsts

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

- Keith Henson

topic: Cards, Cost, Credit

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

- Ken Follett

topic: Fear, Writing, Credit

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

- Kristin Cavallari

topic: Cards, Credit, Scared

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

- Larry Winget

topic: Two, Credit, Reputation

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

- Lena Horne

source: "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

topic: Credit, Firsts, Symbols

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

- Lesley-Anne Down

topic: Thinking, Acting, Credit

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Expansion, Credit, World, Suspension Of Disbelief, Suspension