Credit-Taking Quotes

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

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.

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.

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.

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!

A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or elsewhere.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.