Best 722 quotes in «credit quotes» category

Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

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.

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

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

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Maybe you'll take the cash out. So a credit card company or a bank that goes into the business of saying we're going to be the broker, we're going to sell you a mortgage that you're going to be able to pay off, we're going to help you reduce your credit card debt, we're going to help you save for retirement, we're going to put you into mutual funds that have low fees rather than high fees.

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.

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.

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.

Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

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

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

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

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

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

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

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.

[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.

No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.

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

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

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.

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 call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.