Quotes About Spending

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Spade loved money in the way only someone who grew up poor could. He understood its feckless ways and spent it joyfully. It was all a big goof to him and the more he spent the harder he had to work, which was how he liked it.

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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

Republicans remained purely about small government until they started their unlawful and unnecessary wars. The first was Nixon's and later Reagan's and Bush's War on Drugs, and the second was George W. Bush's War on Terror. These wars enlarged government, increased spending, enhanced regulation, took away the rights of the American people, and were largely ineffective.

What is money made for except to spend?

our capital authorization process itself is important, not the authorization itself. To prepare and justify a capital spending request, people go through a lot of soul-searching analysis and juggling, and it is this mental exercise that is valuable. The formal authorization is useful only because it enforces the discipline of the process.

Brian leaned against the other side of Justus's pillar and tugged at his bow tie. "Your dad sure can spend some money," he said, raising his voice over the string quartet ten feet away in an alcove.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Whatever you have, spend less.

As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Whenever the price of cryptocurrency is rallying, people start spending a lot more.

This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.