Quotes about credit

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Lord Byron

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 T. 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

Remember that credit is money.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Alexander Pope

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.

— Spanish Proverb

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

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

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

— Upton Sinclair

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

— Maurice Switzer

Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

— Source Unknown

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

— Source Unknown

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

— Horace Walpole

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

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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