Best 722 quotes in «credit quotes» category

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

Have you ever gotten tired of hearing those ridiculous AT&T commercials claiming credit for things that don't even exist yet? You will.

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.

Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

he card companies will often, as a courtesy, honor that credit card, but hit you with a penalty. And you keep swiping your card for $3 at Starbucks for your latté, and you're getting hit with a $25 penalty because it's over your credit limit.

Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

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.

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.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

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?

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

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

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

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

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

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

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

I created a human being from paper and I put it on the screen, a unique individual. I wish every performance, every IMDB credit, I would do it over, because I would do it better, because I would do it less. If that makes any sense.

I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

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.

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

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.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

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

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

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

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

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.

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

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

If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a 'same sex' marriage license issued in another state.