Quotes About Allocation

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

Every government has a fixed budget and demands of all sectors have to be fulfilled in that amount.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

I took a look at what you needed and divided what was left between

Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business, and a third let him keep in reserve. —Talmud (c. 1200 BC–AD 500)

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...

Planning is the process of identifying how best to use your resources to achieve your outcomes.

Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company.

Relying on the market to provide both private and public goods will always lead to underprovision of the latter.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Everybody gets the same hours in a day; It's really a matter of how you use them.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.