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Quotes About Spending

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
~ Germaine Greer
Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.
~ Edward Zigler
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.
~ Jason Terry
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
~ Ronald Reagan
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Time is priceless. You have it, but you don't own it. You spend it, but you can't keep it. And once it's gone, there's no getting it back. Use it wisely!
~ Unknown
Rich people stay rich by living like they're broke...broke people stay broke by living like they're rich.
~ Unknown
Shopping while upset and emtional leads to alot of black being purchased...
~ Unknown
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
~ Marco Rubio
And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
~ Marco Rubio
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.
~ Margaret Thatcher
And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease – they've run out of other people's money.
~ Margaret Thatcher
There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The problem with socialists, is that they always run out of other people's money,
~ Margaret Thatcher
expenditure on food does not increase in the same ratio as income, but becomes relatively lower. People learn to expect that food will be cheap; money is for spending on other things.
~ Unknown
the average U.S. woman will spend $ 55,000 on her hair in her lifetime.
~ Unknown
If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
~ Maria Bartiromo
In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.
~ Maria Shriver
The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
~ David Duchovny
She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
~ Dick Armey