Credit Quotes

• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Positive, Business

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• 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

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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• The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Helping Others

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 11, 2014

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  A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

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• The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

  Dwight Morrow

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3

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

  Marie Stopes

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

  Mark Twain

  Worthwhile Things, Accomplishment, Achievement

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• Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

  Christopher Parker

  Fun, Attitude, Procrastination

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• You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

  Denis Waitley

  Wise, Wisdom, Responsibility

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• No man's credit is as good as his money.

  John Dewey

  Money, Business, Men

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• Public credit is suspicion asleep.

  Thomas Paine

  Suspicion

  Thomas Paine (1822). “The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance”, p.13

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• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

  Anatole France

  Money, Business, Cash

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

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• Remember that credit is money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Remember

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244

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• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  Ilie Nastase

  Missing You, Shopping, Wife

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• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Dwight Morrow

  Forgiveness, Party, Rain

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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• If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

  Guy Ritchie

  Ideas, The End Of The Day, Pages

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• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Literature, Used

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• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

  Al Gore

  Wall, Roosters, Rising

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• I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Government, Doe

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• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  Lena Horne

  Firsts, Symbols, Not Alone

  "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

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• I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

  Little Richard

  Creating, Giving, Devil

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• There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Spiritual, Car, Soul

  "A New America". Adlai E. Stevenson's Acceptance Address at the Democratic National Convention, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. August 17, 1956.

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• Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

  Paul Wellstone

  Practice, Accountability, Needs

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