Credit Quotes

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

~ Phillip Gary Smith

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: 'I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

~ Mark Twain

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

~ Thomas Harris

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

~ John Fitch

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.

~ Indira Gandhi

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

~ Simon Bolivar

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

~ Andrew Carnegie

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

~ Benjamin Jowett

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

~ Lisa Snowdon

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

~ Grace Slick

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.

~ Murray Rothbard

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

~ Francis Darwin

Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

~ Donna Brazile

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

~ Charles Lyell

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

~ Elizabeth Warren

Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.

~ Martin Jacques

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

~ Barton Gellman

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

~ Mel Smith

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

~ Spike Lee

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

~ Lincoln Steffens

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

~ Camille Paglia

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

~ Abbott L. Lowell

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

~ Mariella Frostrup

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

~ Elbert Hubbard

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

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

~ John Dewey

Remember that credit is money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Money is a poor man's credit card.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

~ Alexander Gould

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

~ Elaine Chao

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

~ Denis Waitley

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

~ Suze Orman

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

~ Seamus Heaney

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

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

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

~ Andrew Jackson

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

~ Candace Parker