My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
— Indira Gandhi
Inspiring Taking Credit quotations
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Attribute to God every good that you have received.
If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit.
And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.
But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own 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.
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.
America takes credit for giving you freedom that you had anyway.
It's like going to a wedding and putting your tag on somebody elses box.
We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.
Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?
Scott Brooks you mean the world to me.
I love you. You as a man, I never met anybody like you. So selfless. You don't take the credit for nothing, Even though you deserve all of it. I love you and your family for always taking me in, Believing in me, Texting me late at night when I was going crazy. Thank you. Thank you.
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.
Business schools don't create successful people.
They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.
Too much credit is given to the end result.
The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner.
Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami.
Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails.
Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.
We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.
A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.
The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.