Credit Quotes

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.

We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today’s advanced economies’ operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before.