Credit Quotes - Page 24

• A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

  Michael Lewis

  Confusing, Default, Fixed

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.

  Jessica Lynch

  "Jessica Lynch Condemns Pentagon". news.bbc.co.uk. November 07, 2003.

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• Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Who I Am, Parent

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• We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

  Markus Zusak

  Teenager, Book, Thinking

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• You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

  Dave Ramsey

  Games, Rewards, Cards

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• Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Debt, Want

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• Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

  Paul Russo

  Karma, Blessing, Energy

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• For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

  Margaret Keane

  Husband, Home, Years

  "Everything You Need To Know About Margaret & Walter Keane, Tim Burton’s Latest Obsession" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

  Sheldon Richman

  Education, School, Mean

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• True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.

  Thomas Gordon

  Pain, Character, Men

  "Cato's Letter" No. 57, Of false Honour, publick and private, December 16, 1721.

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• Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Land, Car, Progress

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 88), 1968.

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• Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Views, Long

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

  Jimmy Savile

  Men, Our Words, Habit

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• In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

  Allan Donald

  Years, Engagement, Pleasure

  "Sachin Tendulkar: Quotable Quotes on the Batting Legend". www.khaleejtimes.com. November 12, 2013.

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• My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Men, Ninety Nine

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

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• A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  "Interview: Mark Cuban, Businessman". Interview with Scott McKenzie, slushpile.net. March 9, 2006.

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• It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.

  Steve Coppell

  Soccer, Football, Luck

  "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Years, President, Hollywood

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• I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

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• But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.96, TAN Books

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• The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Issues, Interesting

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Doe, Rivals, Lines

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

  Brandon Routh

  Letting Go, Taken, Thinking

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.

  Pope Pius XI

  Hands, Politics, Firsts

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