CREDIT CARD QUOTES
quotations about credit cards
Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.
J.F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
My wife just underwent plastic surgery. I cut up her credit cards.
ANONYMOUS
A guy like me can sure get far
With a little gas and a credit card
MARK MCGUINN
"That's a Plan"
The whole point of credit cards, the way they are rendered most profitable, is that we dig ourselves into debt and stay trapped there forever.
BRETT WILLIAMS
Debt For Sale
You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.
DAVE RAMSEY
daily tip
The thing about credit cards is that they assume an importance in our lives that takes them far beyond an innocuous piece of plastic in our wallet, directly to the heart of the way we live. For some of us, they're all about convenience; just another way to conduct financial transactions. These convenience-seekers use credit cards at will, pay them off each month and reap the rewards points. For these people, plastic is fantastic. For a large proportion of us, however, credit cards are the way we fill the gap between the lifestyle we can afford and the lifestyle we actually live. To these people, a credit card is a "frenemy", loved and hated in equal measure. The trouble is that once you get used to the idea of supplementing your income with someone else's cash, it becomes a difficult habit to break. So we love the card for its access to what we think of as "life", but hate it because those bills roll around with monotonous regularity, reminding us of our excesses.
ALLISON TAIT
Credit Card Stressbusters
The handy thing about credit cards is that they're a great way to pay off your credit cards.
JIM KRAUS
The Laugh-a-Day Book of Bloopers
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
ANATOLE FRANCE
attributed, A Cynic's Breviary
The only road, the sure road--to unquestioned credit and a sound financial condition is the exact and punctual fulfilment of every pecuniary obligation, public and private, according to its letter and spirit.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
speech at N. E. Society Dinner, Brooklyn, Dec. 21, 1880
My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.
E. C. MCKENZIE
1800 Quotes, Quips, and Squibs
These days using a credit card is like going to a Las Vegas casino. No matter how clever or responsible you are, nine times out of ten, you are going to lose, and the company is going to win. Managing your finances shouldn't be a gamble. The deck shouldn't be stacked against you.
CHELLIE PINGREE
remarks in U.S. House of Representatives on Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act, May 20, 2009
Credit cards have gone from being a luxury to being a convenience to being a necessity. Whether it is paying for your gas at the pump or placing an order online, our modern economy almost requires you to have a credit card.
CHELLIE PINGREE
remarks in U.S. House of Representatives on Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act, May 20, 2009
The fact is, nearly 75 percent of Americans who use credit cards make only the minimum payment each month. At that rate (minimum payments) you could spend the next thirty years paying back a $3,000 credit card debt and give the financial institution $8,000 worth of interest. It's the principle of compound interest in reverse.
RAYMOND MCHENRY
McHenry's Quips
Had to hock the hot rod to pay the credit card
Debt was too easy, life is too hard
THOMPSON BROTHERS
"Back on the Farm"
Credit cards are a safe way to carry money: They provide a convenient record of all your expenses, and they generally offer relatively good exchange rates.
DARWIN PORTER & DANFORTH PRINCE
Caribbean for Dummies
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Understanding Media
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Young people begin receiving credit card applications the minute they turn eighteen. These offers encourage them to have credit cards in order to "establish a credit history." My personal take on this is that there will be plenty of time for that later. I want children to get a good sense of managing the money they do have, living within the budget they've set, saving a little, and meeting their financial responsibilities before they take on credit.
SUSAN MCCARTHY
The Value of Money