Credit Quotes - Page 30

• The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Welfare Programs, Voting

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• In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Government, Class

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• You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Achieve

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• But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Practice, Names

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• To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Expansion

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• We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

  Peter Schiff

  Feel Good, Meals, Going Out

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• What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Sake, Expansion

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Credit is money of the mind.

  James Grant

  Mind

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• I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Government, Needs

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• I don't want to sell credit to people who are going to hurt themselves with it. You should only sell products that are good for the people who use them. Some disagree with this, but I know I'm right. That is to say, you're talking to a Republican who admires Elizabeth Warren.

  Charlie Munger

  Hurt, Talking, People

  "Charlie Munger's Thoughts on the World: Part 1". Charlie Munger's speech at the Wesco Financial Annual Meeting "A Morning With Charlie" in Los Angeles, www.fool.com. July 2, 2011.

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• I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

  Zainab Salbi

  Husband, Believe, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented people as I did in my cast, you definitely don't want to fetter them in any sense. You want them to be able to go out there and do their thing and feel confident in doing their thing, because ultimately I'm the person who gets the credit which is great.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to give credit where credit is due to Eric Radomski, who is the head of our production for Marvel Animation and who also happened to direct the pilot as well, has been the supervising producer on the show and has really been just looking at every single way that we can just plus up. This is a great-looking show.

  Jeph Loeb

  Giving, Eric, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Again, I want to give credit where credit is due to our voice director, Collette Sunderman, who is someone that works out an incredible juggling act. I refer to it as juggling cats with vertigo, and the cats don't have vertigo, but the juggler has vertigo.

  Jeph Loeb

  Cat, Voice, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• We think that helps bring it up to a place where our storyboard writers then get the opportunity to be able to take that energy and really bring it to the show. I credit that entirely to our cast.

  Jeph Loeb

  Opportunity, Thinking, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Philosophical, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• These stunt guys are good at what they do and they're professional. A smart actor will step back and say, "I'm going to let the professionals do this." Hats off to those guys, man. When you see the credits scroll, look at all those stunt guys and remember all those names 'cause they earned their money on this.

  James Badge Dale

  Smart, Men, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in the trailer, and then my name came up on the credits, and this is the dream you dare to dream, that came true.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Dream, Couple, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Keys, Opposites

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.

  Martin Zwilling

  Motivation, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

  Richard Thaler

  Swans, Rare Events, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, Giving, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.

  Richard Thaler

  Mean, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.

  Richard Thaler

  Real, Use, Pay

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, People, Balance

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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