From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches college coaches - but my dad the foundation that he built with me is where all of this came from. The speed the determination the mindset just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to it all comes from my dad.
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Over and over again financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over they ignobly fail because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
A leopard does not change his spots or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
If I had done what I was programmed to do I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
Many kids come out of college they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards but that's not the case. Sure my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16 but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit and are being impacted by gasoline prices food distribution businesses chemical business.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your own soul's doing.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your soul's own doing.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.
I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game for her attitude for her person and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
The last time money left the art world intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries and a few of them have become the best in the world.