#credit

Credit... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. ↗

— James Blish

#credit #enduring #man #only

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. ↗

— Robert Manning

#companies #credit #credit card #debt #extension

The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven't any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver's licence, your social security number. If a driver's licence is more reliable than the face I wear, then why do I have a face? ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#people #recognition #society #system #business

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#pleased #someone #wanted #worry #courage

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#credit #leadership #responsibility #subordinates #leadership

Money is just the poor man's credit card. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#credit #credit card #just #man #money

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#been #blame #credit #engineered #events

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#credit #evil #money #money

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#credit #mob #money #real-estate #recession