Quotes About Spending

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

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.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

Don't spend money on things... spend money on experiences. You'll enjoy life a lot more!