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A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
-Proverb
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
-Ambrose Bierce
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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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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
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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
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Remember that credit is money.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
-Herbert Hoover, Address at Des Moines, Iowa, October 4, 1932
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
-Alexander Pope
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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 Cards' from the premiere of Your Number's Up (9/23/85)
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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
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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
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
-Upton Sinclair
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The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
-Maurice Switzer
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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
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Buying on trust is the way to pay double.
-Source Unknown
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In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
-Source Unknown
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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
-Horace Walpole
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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
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Books about Credit
