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Quotes About Credit

no matter the evidence of your life, or who you believe you are, or what you're willing to take credit for or draw your vital strength and pride from—anything at all can follow anything at all.
~ Richard Ford
Few of her achievements have been recognised, and when they are, the credit is invariably given to the men serving her. This is largely due to a basic handicap: that she was a woman and could only rule in the name of her sons ... In terms of groundbreaking achievements, political sincerity and personal courage, Empress Dowager Cixi set a standard that has barely been matched.
~ Jung Chang
Few of her achievements have been recognised and, when they are, the credit is invariably given to the men serving her. This is largely due to a basic handicap: that she was a woman and could only rule in the name of her sons-so her precise role has been little known.
~ Jung Chang
all cases, therefore, the use-value of the labour-power is advanced to the capitalist: the labourer allows the buyer to consume it before he receives payment of the price; he everywhere gives credit to the capitalist. That this credit is no mere fiction, is shown not only by the occasional loss of wages on the bankruptcy of the capitalist,[181] but also by a series of more enduring consequences.
~ Karl Marx
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.
~ James Blish
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
~ E. W. Howe
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.
~ Darren Hardy
Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.
~ Antonio Tarver
I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!
~ Chris Rock
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.
~ Norman Lock
Credit is a young man's capital.
~ Oscar Wilde
The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest
~ Richard Steele
Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
~ J. P. Morgan
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
~ Charles Lyell