Quotes About Credit

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.

The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.

Your worldly failure, if you have failed, is to your credit rather than to your blame. Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman's position and credit, sooner than you think.' 'Baptista

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to credit your own opinion.

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

Conspicuous symbols of wealth, such as homes and motor vehicles, are better indicators of one's credit use than of the size of one's investment portfolio.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.

One thing he had to give her credit for, she'd never called it a Relationship. What is it then, hey, he'd asked once. A secret, with her small child's smile, which like Rodgers and Hammerstein in 3/4 time rendered Profane fluttery and gelatinous.

For most of the period of the boom, only Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch were recognized by the SEC. It was not the particular choices of rating-agencies selected by the SEC that is in question but the policy of giving those agencies a captive market.

Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.

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

It is substantially a proposition," concluded the two Northern Democrats and three Republicans, who signed the Minority Report on the bill, "to build this road and the branches on Government credit without making them the property of the Government when built. If there be any profit, the corporations may take it; if there be loss, the Government must bear it.

Accept your positive experiences without taking credit and you have humility. Accept your negative experiences without blame and you have serenity.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

breach between the old society of survival and the consumer society; getting into debt, always regarded as a burden and possibly a disgrace, was suddenly perfectly normal, even encouraged.

If you win, give the credit. If you lose, take the blame.

William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn't be more pleased, as long as none of them does something to hurt Ashlyn. And I take full credit for starting the trend.

Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits.

They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.

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.

The Pope's entrance was stunning. Maybe the Catholics know about miracles, and maybe they know about saints, but they've never received enough credit for what they know about show business.