Credit Quotes

• If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Back
  • Credit
  • Killer

• The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before. Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn't just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).

  

  Alan M. Taylor
  • Credit
  • Measure
  • Economies

• One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Credit
  • Fingers
  • Good Sense

• You have to give that team some credit. Three-point shooting is not an easy task.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Credit
  • Shooting

• For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • Credit
  • Conquering

• As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new checkbook currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • Security
  • Week
  • Office

• Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Credit

• Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Faster

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

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Care
  • Credit

• There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Way
  • Economy
  • Consumers

• New York has done an excellent job. And I give credit - I give credit across the board going back two mayors, two police chiefs, because it has worked. And other communities need to come together to do what will work, as well.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Job
  • New York
  • Police chiefs

• Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent use of land would be unable to raise money for the purchase price. Collecting rent annually provides access to land for persons with limited access to credit.

  

  Franco Modigliani
  • Important
  • Excellent
  • Collecting

• Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Faith
  • United States

• Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit.

  

  Earl Mac Rauch
  • Credit
  • Hospital
  • Announcement

• 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
  • Audience
  • President
  • Television

• When it comes to most credit unions, security is barely existent, if at all.

  

  David Kennedy Box Car Racer
  • Credit
  • Barely
  • Existent

• At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Risk
  • Credit
  • Coattails

• I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There's the way modern music is produced, which is, 'Here's a piece of music, and I'm the producer, so pay me and make sure my credit is right and get me my splits.' But I'm trying to go backward. Now, it's more like 'What's the texture? What's the over-arching story?' There are more things to pay attention to than 'Is this the right snare?'

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Story
  • Producer
  • Pay Attention

• Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Great
  • Idea
  • Don't Think

• People get way too much credit at funerals.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • People
  • Get
  • Funerals

• I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Characters
  • Directors
  • Concept

• Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Form
  • Higher
  • Cards

• Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Brander Matthews
  • Evil
  • Doubt
  • Benefits

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