Credit Quotes - Page 12

• 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 just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mirrors, World

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• All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Jobs, Sorry, Men

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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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• When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

  Frank Oz

  People, Three, Tough

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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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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• Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.

  Marc Cooper

  Color, Class, America

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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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• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Deception

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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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• Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

  Craig Groeschel

  Might, Blame, Christ

  Craig Groeschel (2008). “It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It”, p.115, Zondervan

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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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• Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Cards, Debt

  "Chomsky: How America's Great University System Is Being Destroyed" by Noam Chomsky, www.alternet.org. February 28, 2014.

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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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