This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn’t renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.

We think, over the long term, the real key to value of a bank is does it have true deposits from true long-term customers? People who actually know the bank, live in the neighborhood, work there, maybe have a mortgage there, credit card… That, to us, is the key to a bank.

I don’t like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.

The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of them, banners and leaflets are others, but also a lot of minor crimes if you can connect them with the group – credit card fraud, thefts – these types of things have been used to support them.

I like it when you buy something and pay with a credit card, they put your credit card on the receipt, but only the last four numbers. Aha! I’m really good at guessing twelve numbers. I can’t guess 16 numbers, so thanks for the assistance!

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends‘ goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you’ll be spending money you have – always a good thing.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash – your own money.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

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.

Most of my life‘s information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. “I haven‘t got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket.” Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. “We’d have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos.

Stores are never nice to people. They’re nice to credit cards.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, … The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they’re not.

When I am high I couldn’t worry about money of I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet‘s natural resources.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

They’re pushing credit cards. They don’t take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don’t take this one, but they take that one, or you’d better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.

One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card debt to mortgage debt, you are securing that credit card debt with your home. That’s a risky proposition.

Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

First, pay off your high-interest-rate debt. If you have student loan debt – that’s low interest rate; that has a tax benefit – you can leave that out. A mortgage can be an OK one. Credit card debt is poison. That needs to be paid off right away.

You must be sure – and I mean absolutely positive – that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

Why can’t everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week’s worth of clothes on a credit card?

I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV broadcasters but because they had been sued by McDonald‘s in the past none of them would commission me so I ended up making it by credit cards and rich boyfriends (I’m joking – about the boyfriends).

What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don’t break the knee caps of those who can’t pay back, they still are destroying people’s lives.

Credit card companies and banks usually aren’t shy when they’re trying to sell you something. Heck, Wells Fargo didn’t even bother to ask consumers before signing them up for as many as two million checking and credit card accounts.

Whether we are working to pay off student loans, credit card debt, paying for elder or childcare, or even trying to save for retirement, the idea of the American dream still remains just that – a dream.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

I love a hotel that offers Wi-Fi Internet access, especially if it’s free. But I never access sensitive information, like my bank account or an online shopping site that stores my credit card information, on a public Wi-Fi connection.

We’re risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once – somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account – people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I would like to ask it to other people: Why is it that most celebrities pay with cash as opposed to credit card? Is it so that they are not recognized right away and want to be more unassuming?

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

My wife lost all her credit cards, but I’m not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

I never had credit card debt… I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

I’m a neurotic Jew who doesn’t want loans. I can’t even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don’t identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents‘ credit card information.

You don’t build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can’t beat the credit card companies at their own game.

… in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is ‘family.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that’s really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you’re pursuing is closed.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

It’s really frustrating when you’re an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, ‘This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card – this is his address,’ and they say, ‘We don’t have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.’

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there’s evil for you.

Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

God’s dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!

I’m the worst customer for a credit card company because I always pay my balance off every month.

If you don’t have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don’t overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

I can walk into Tower Records, go get my box set, take out my Steve Miller credit card, and the clerk will look at me and go, ‘Thanks, next.’

There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they’ve run up – to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.

Someone stole my wallet last week. The guy called me up and he was mad at me. He was like ‘you gotta get your finances together. You got no cash, your credit cards are maxed out. You don’t even have minutes on your calling card. I had to use my card to call you.’

Estonians are much more used to Internet banking rather than an online credit card.

Here’s my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there’s this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

The way the credit cards were made in the ‘80s to be a people’s form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that’s the way stocks are.

After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?

I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There’s practically nothing there to go shopping for.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

I’m very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you’re grown up, a credit card does it.

Face the fact that there’s only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.

I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

But credit card debt is unsecured debt, which means if you get in trouble and cannot pay off your credit card, you can discharge it in bankruptcy. What are they going do to you? If you’re in a financial position to just methodically pay off both credit card and student loans, pay them all.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren’t just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone‘s life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

It was then I knew I’d had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

The world does not need another credit card.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.

You don’t realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It’s a card you get so you can navigate society.

Imagine you owe on five credit cards, you owe five debts. So which debt should you pay first? And the answer is very simple: You should pay the one with the highest interest rate first. But that’s not what people do.

You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business – anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

Everything we do in the digital realm – from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call – creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it – or will be soon enough.

Former Senator Al D’Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can’t use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

When you’re sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don’t bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

I’m not a fan of debt consolidation. In my experience, many people “clear” credit cards and other debt to get the one payment and never change what they need to change to prevent getting into debt again.

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it’s 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don’t know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier’s checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

When you walk into a store and you want to buy something, you give them cash and they sell it to you. But very often, you walk into our “store” and you want something – a credit card, maybe, or a loan – and very often the answer is “No,” even if you’re a large corporation.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.

There’s more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can’t imagine they’ll get it from these folks.

I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don’t believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card – and in America you can’t pay for anything on a debit card.

All I need are chocolates, credit card, and stilettos.

Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won’t be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending – in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.

A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

If I use my credit card… and they go, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s Lisa Frank who makes the stickers!’ I go, ‘Isn’t that the craziest thing, that I have the same name?’

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.

Nowadays it’s not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

There are so many instances in banking where ‘free’ simply doesn’t mean free, whether it’s opaque overdraft charges or credit card providers that are quietly raising interest rates without customers noticing.

L’Oreal’s slogan ‘because you’re worth it‘ has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they’re actually interested.

People who recognize that money won’t buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

We can’t exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I’m assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.

I’m totally normal in every respect, but I have this one quirk – I can’t give out a number without laughing. It’s a problem when I’m giving my credit card number over the phone because they always think: ‘He must have just stolen it.’

Under the old system – which is now so archaic that a lot of people can’t remember it – if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the money out in cash form, and you couldn’t take out money that you didn’t have. But with the credit card you can spend money you don’t have, and that is just so tempting.

he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt.

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

Smart art galleries know it’s not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery‘s number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist‘s statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don’t make art that connects with buyers.