Quotes About Spending

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

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.

The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

I love to spend money.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.