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«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
«Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Money | Keywords: credit, guarantee, whereby
«Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Friendship | Keywords: credit, not used
«It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.»
Author: Harry S Truman (President) | Keywords: amazing, credit
«It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.»
Author: Harry S Truman (President) | Keywords: amazing, credit
«He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.»
«It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.»
«It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.»
«It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women»

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