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Quotes About Spending

The Law thereby prohibits three contemporary monetary phenomena that have contributed so heavily to the economically precarious position of modern nations: fiat money, fractional reserve banking, and deficit spending.
~ Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
Expenditure rises to meet income.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
They spend money like a pimp with a week to live.
~ C.J. Box
Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Well, they're going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he's going to have some trouble. He's going to have to spend money, but it won't be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don't know anything about money. [To his Secret Service man, Edmund Starling]
~ Calvin Coolidge
Burning a token means removing it from circulation and can be done in two ways: (1) manually send it to an unowned Ethereum address; or (2) even more efficiently, create a contract that is incapable of spending it. Either approach renders the burned tokens unusable, although the decrease in circulating supply would not be "known" by the token contract.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?
~ Candace Schuler
I checked my messages before I started driving. I had three. The first was from Verizon, letting me know I could save more money by spending more money.
~ Gay Hendricks
When I tell him, he looks disgusted. "We spend more money watering the lawns at the manufacturing plants every week! Dick is going to hear from me about this. If he's not willing to spend money, we may lose orders—even if your project is just insurance so we can collect on all the hard work my sales team does—it's a no-brainer!
~ Gene Kim
Cagan notes that when organizations do not pay their "20% tax," technical debt will increase to the point where an organization inevitably spends all of its cycles paying down technical debt.
~ Gene Kim
You simply cannot spend your way into the hearts and minds of technology enthusiasts and visionaries.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.
~ George Ade
Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to show for it, don't need a recommendation from anybody. He's in a class by himself, and it's a business that no one else can give him a pointer about.
~ George Barr McCutcheon
Trabajo para mí, lo que gano me lo gasto como quiero. Me ha costado mucho, no crea que ha sido fácil
~ Isabel Allende
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.
~ Tim Scott
Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
~ Douglas R. Oberhelman
There is no point saying you believe in economic responsbility and being careful with taxpayers money if public services are a reform-free zone.
~ Liz Kendall
An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
~ Franklin P. Jones
Expenditure rises to meet income.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
~ Edmund Burke
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.
~ Miss Piggy
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
~ Confucius