Credit Quotes

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.

Maurice Switzer

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope

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

Upton Sinclair

Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

Source Unknown

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Source Unknown

Remember that credit is money.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

Michael Kimmel

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!

Nipsey Russell, 'Ode To Credit C

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

Harry S. Truman

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

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.

Sir Walter Scott

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.

Proverb

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Charles Dickens

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Herbert Hoover, Address at Des M

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

W. Secker

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron