Credit Quotes

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. (Indira Gandhi)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Money is a poor man's credit card. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. View quote
Robert Orben
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. View quote
Arthur Miller
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
William James
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. (Robert Fogel)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the draught. View quote
Dwight Morrow
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. View quote
Horace Walpole
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. View quote
Herbert Hoover
If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. View quote
Frank Sinatra
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. View quote
Anatole France
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. View quote
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate. View quote
Will Rogers
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. (Madeleine L'Engle)
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. View quote
Maurice Allais
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. View quote
Indira Gandhi