Credit Quotes - Page 25

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at all.

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

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.

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.

Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.

Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

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

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

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

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

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

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.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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

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

Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.

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

I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.