Best 722 quotes in «credit quotes» category

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

Money is the only thing you can use even if you don't have any. ... There's always a credit card.

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

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

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

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

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

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

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.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.

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.

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.

Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

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

Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen.

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

Of course I'm troubled by huge consumer debt levels - we've pushed consumer credit very hard in the US. Eventually, if it keeps growing, it will stop growing. As Herb Stein said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." When it stops, it may be unpleasant. Other than Herb Stein's quote, I have no comment. But the things that trouble you are troubling me.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

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.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Oh, leave it,” said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. “She’s annexed my plan!” “Will,” Tessa said firmly. “Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?” Will pointed a finger at her. “That,” he said. “The second one.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

Once the settlement is completed, the credit card company will report it to the credit bureaus, which will then make a notation on your credit report that that account was paid by settlement. That's going to signal to future lenders that you left the last guy hanging. That's why, as with bankruptcy, debt settlement is an extreme option, one you shouldn't take lightly. It's not just an easy, cheap way to eliminate debt.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

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.

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

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

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Remember that credit is money.

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

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