Quotes About Credit

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

Money is the poor people's credit card.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

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

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

The body arrived soon enough: an unclaimed corpse from a nearby medical examiner. The guinea pigs? A cinch. Undergraduates will do anything for extra credit.

Credit money is based on trust, and in competitive markets, trust itself becomes a scarce commodity.

I always wonder how banks manage to go bankrupt at all considering they can just make up the money, and especially, what is stopping them from lending money to themselves.

True, earlier figures like Adam Smith and David Ricardo were suspicious of credit systems, but already by the mid–nineteenth century, economists who concerned themselves with such matters were largely in the business of trying to demonstrate that, despite appearances, the banking system really was profoundly democratic.

What this also meant was that honor and credit became, effectively, the same thing: at least for a poor man, one's creditworthiness was precisely one's command over one's household, and (the flip side, as it were) relations of domestic authority, relations that in principle involved a responsibility for care and protection, became property rights that could indeed be bought and sold.

As for the credit partnership, it is also called the "partnership of the penniless" (sharika al-mafalis).