Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, "Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?".
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.
I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.
I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to act as a buffer.
When headlines are only about Shah Rukh, I get upset. There is no value then to what I do. His achievements are his, and I have no part in them. I do what I do.
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.
Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
I want to be given my credit and want to be given my respect.
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.
I cannot separate my achievements from what can be considered as the achievements of the ruling party.
Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
I just want credit for my ideas, because I am the creative force behind TLC.
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.
That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.
I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back.
You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.
The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.
The hardship, the pain, the suffering of my brother and my son in prison, that's absolutely their experience, that's not mine. I don't get any credit for enduring that. I never give myself any credit for enduring that.
