Credit Quotes

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

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

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'