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Quotes About Spending

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
~ Theophrastus
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
~ Thomas Dekker
Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Congress has the authority to authorize spending and investment to historically neglected and marginalized communities.
~ Jamaal Bowman
The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.
~ Chael Sonnen
Netflix isn't spending movie-level marketing money - they want people to find this stuff through word of mouth.
~ Matt Duffer
What's the difference? Ninety million or 80 million. You still can't spend it all.
~ Gary Payton
Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.
~ Charles Boustany
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.
~ Nick Hornby
Vorweg ein paar grundsätzliche Regeln: 1) Ich möchte keine Klagen hören, ich würde zu viel Geld für Bücher ausgeben, die ich dann doch nicht lese. Das weiß ich selbst. Ich habe stets die Absicht, sie mehr oder weniger alle zu lesen. Meine Absichten sind gut. Und schließlich ist es ja mein Geld. Ich wette, bei Ihnen ist es ähnlich.
~ Nick Hornby
Can I be a good person and spend that much money on overpriced consumer goods? I don't know. But I do know this: I'd be no good without them.
~ Nick Hornby
1) Fate a meno di scrivermi che spendo troppi soldi per libri che in gran parte non leggerò mai. Questo lo so già. Perché comunque ho intenzione di leggerli…più o meno. Le mie intenzioni sono buone. In ogni caso, i soldi sono miei. E poi scommetto che fate anche voi come me.
~ Nick Hornby
an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.
~ Nick Laird
Time is how you spend your love. From his poem The Last Saturday In Ulster
~ Nick Laird
Education doesn't determine how you earn, education determines how you spend.
~ Noam Chomsky
If you've ever turned on your television set, you know that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to try to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices—that's what advertising is.
~ Noam Chomsky
Spending would then average about $4.5 trillion per year between 2024 and 2050. Total clean energy investment spending for the full twenty-seven-year investment cycle would amount to about $120 trillion.
~ Noam Chomsky
So she hadn't been smart with her money, Malory admitted with a windy sigh. She didn't see the point of letting it lie in some bank when it could be turned into something lovely to look at or to wear. Until it was used, money was just paper. Malory tended to use a great deal of paper.
~ Nora Roberts
Military Keynesianism means the economy gets a sudden juice-boost of wildly unaccountable new defense spending. And here's the kicker: It requires that we keep up sustained, prolonged and relentless military ambition in order for the economy not to suck backward into itself and collapse like a Superdome-size water blister. It's the economic plan endorsed by Germany in the 1930s and under former GE spokesman Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Once
~ Cintra Wilson
You think you know what the Department of Defense is spending? The Department of Defense doesn't even know what the Department of Defense is spending.
~ Cintra Wilson
It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.
~ Claire Cook
So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent;
~ Virginia Woolf
Most Americans could retire on what they waste on car loans.
~ Larry Burkett