Quotes About Spending

The money spent by one campus ministry to cover the costs of their Central American mission trip to repaint an orphanage would have been sufficient to hire two local painters and two new full-time teachers and purchase new uniforms for every student in the school.

Reach deep into your wallet and buy a decent mule.

I knew how to use a dictionary, and if I was going to be spending time around Nero Wolfe, I would have to buy one."-Archie Goodwin in Archie Meets Nero Wolfe

In one large sample of women, for instance, the annual probability of divorce among those whose weddings cost more than $20,000 was more than three times that of those whose weddings cost between $5,000 and $10,000.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

Most public companies spend less than 2 percent of their annual budgets on R&D.

Syndicated columnist Harvey Mackay said, "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

The federal government operates pretty much in line with the quip, "If it moves, tax it; if you can't tax it, control it; if you can't control it, give it a million dollars.

La mayoría de las personas preferirían vivir dentro de sus medios que expandir sus medios.

The pattern of get up, go to work, pay bills; get up, go to work, pay bills. People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed. Offer them more money and they continue the cycle by increasing their spending. This is what I call the Rat Race." "There is another way?" Mike asked. "Yes," said rich dad slowly. "But only a few people find it.

spendeva denaro che non aveva per comprare cose di cui non aveva bisogno e impressionare gente che non gli piaceva. Che modo misero di vivere.»

Ida Alice seemed determined to run through Flagler's money, gathering an expensive wardrobe and trying to buy her way into New York high society.

Think of pouring out all that money on a whim.

What really disturbed him was not so much making money but spending it.

Each year, Rockefeller reluctantly gave another million dollars to bolster the permanent endowment to keep pace with his free-spending president

Unable to curtail his free-handed spending and with his crops faring poorly, he started out 1786 with a paltry eighty-six pounds in cash.

Billions are spent for neurophysiological research to control human behavior, he reflected. Beauty shops would be cheaper.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.