Quotes About Spending

If the consumer generally feels like they are going to have a job... access to money... we will see them spend that.

When you offer consumers choice, let them vote with their wallets.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

If you are a borrower, the more you borrow, the more it costs.

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

My money mistake is that I am very bad at spending it on myself. And worse in keeping a count of it.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

The world does not need another credit card.

I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

The last bag that I bought myself was a Madden Girl backpack that's really cute. And it was on sale for $45! I'm probably going to be cheap with my money for a long time.

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.

Biden and his partisan hacks have no plan to tackle America's spending addiction and get our fiscal house in order.

Simply put, we have to take charge and take responsibility and support what's in the marketplace. Because, quiet as it's kept, the powers that be are cognizant of what our spending dollar means. And it is kept a little quiet, and we have to become aware of what we mean in the marketplace and take advantage of it.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.