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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• 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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• 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 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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• Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Failure, Government, Giving

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Denis Waitley

  Wise, Wisdom, Responsibility

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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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  There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Rewards And Recognition

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• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 07, 2014

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• People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

  Ruben Blades

  People, Giving, Smarter

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Literature, Used

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• Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Kind, Affair, Interdependence

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.37, Rutgers University Press

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• The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

  Lowell Thomas

  Men, Talking, Speak

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• The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

  Upton Sinclair

  Slavery, Modern, Form

  Upton Sinclair (1926). “Letters to Judd, an American Workingman”

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• Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

  Philip Massinger

  Giving, Kind, Accusation

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford (1813). “Plays: The maid of honour. The picture. The Emperor of the East. The fatal dowry. A new way to pay old debts”, p.62

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• Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

  Walter Scott

  Glasses, May, Clear

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• Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Smart, Cards, Cash

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2006). “Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

  Tracy Austin

  Two, Numbers, Giving

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• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  Irving Thalberg

  Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.823, e-artnow

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• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

  Vin Diesel

  Mother, Book, Car

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