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Quotes About Credit

Trust your reader, stop patronising your reader, give your reader credit for being smart as you at least.
~ Hilary Mantel
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
~ Honore de Balzac
We should credit [the sky] for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature.
~ Lewis Thomas
never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.
~ Lionel Shriver
I am confessedly and unashamedly almost fifty years old and never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.
~ Lionel Shriver
They still want credit for being tolerant, without taking the rap for the fact that you only 'tolerate' what you can't stand.
~ Lionel Shriver
Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
~ Timothy Geithner
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.
~ Jeremy Grantham
The way that customers pay businesses is constantly evolving. Instead of paying with paper, like cash and checks, businesses are expected to accept a variety of payment methods ranging from credit cards to digital payments.
~ John Rampton
When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases - and all of a sudden, you've blown up your business.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
~ Billy Beane
Everybody trying to bite the style ever since we made 'Versace.' But they don't give us credit.
~ Takeoff
In my mother's mind, all I'd achieved was due to her, and not my own efforts.
~ Jen Lancaster
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.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Where were we? she said. Getting credit, I said. What about it? Well, it's nice to get credit. The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. Is it? she said.
~ Jerry Spinelli
But it was him, not God or any other... illusory power... who tore me away from that fire. I give credit where credit is due. One human being made a choice, he acted, and I owe him my life. No god killed my parents, nearly killed James, and spared me. I know that, and I can't go back and believe in things that I used to believe in.. or that I used to want to believe in. I don't know how much faith I had to lose that night, but whatever I have is gone now
~ Jessica Park
True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.
~ Laozi
This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.
~ Warren Buffett
Do not worry about who get the credit or praise of the work done. Continue work to give your best.Your reward may come unexpected.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
~ Hank Johnson
I was going to do business studies in Newcastle because there were a lot of nightclubs. My father said if I went that route, he'd never speak to me again: credit where credit's due.
~ Louise Wilson
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
~ James Van Der Beek