Quotes About Spending

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

Consider a simple comparison: The American government spends more on Americans' health care (per capita) than the French government spends on their entire health care system (again in per capita terms). It is a fair criticism that some individuals are left out of this coverage, or perhaps too much is sent to doctors and hospitals, but using some very plausible metrics, the American government is more involved in health care than is the French government.

Most of what we spend on education is dominated by government. So unlike the expenditures on apples, our educational spending is not facing a strong market test.

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

despite the decline in consumer spending brought on by the greatest economic downturn since World War II, the difference between jobs in manufacturing and in retail had reached nearly three million workers, a depressing reality of a failing economy where most new opportunities were low-paid, part-time positions to sell Chinese apparel and electronics bought on credit.

So what if you've been blowing every paycheck on "rewarding" yourself for surviving another week?

By late 2017, consumer debt had topped $3.7 trillion, more than double the total at the end of 2000. That's more than $11,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country.

The bottom line is that we think we work to pay the bills—but we spend more than we make on more than we need, which sends us back to work to get the money to spend to get more stuff—that sends us back to work again!

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

The reason why you don´t have success is, because you don´t understand the difference between wasting and spending time.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

Helen recognised that she, and Edward, and Dorothy herself, for that matter, were not as others are when it came to possession. She seldom wanted anything. Edward was the same. Her mother had hated spending money, not out of parsimony but laziness. Whatever it was in the make-up of most people that responds to the sight of goods for sale had been left out, in their case.