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"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."
"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
"In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?""
"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."
"Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah ."
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"The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician."
"Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying."
"Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws."
"You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it."
"Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion."
"If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School."
"Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them."
"If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!"
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."
"Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!"
"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."
". . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
"Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas."
"I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful."
"There might be some credit in being jolly."
"We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy."
"No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron."
"Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation"
"Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit ."
