Quotes About Spending

If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending.

If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His.

Today alcohol and tobacco are available, and people spend considerably more on these very unsatisfactory euphorics, pseudo-stimulants and sedatives than they are ready to spend on the education of their children.

Money brings no satisfaction if one has to work for it; for if one works for it one has no time to spend it.

Gastamos actualmente en bebidas y tabaco más de lo que gastamos en educación.

He also spends a lot of my money on vitamin pills and biltong.

Russians are rarely in a hurry, and like to have frequent opportunities of eating and drinking. In Russia time is not money; if it were, nearly all the subjects of the Tsar would always have a large stock of ready money on hand, and would often have great difficulty in spending it. In reality, be it parenthetically remarked, a Russian with a superabundance of ready money is a phenomenon rarely met with in real life.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

Carter also was trying to deal with a flood of illegal immigrants from Mexico. He suggested that nothing could be done about that immigration as long as there was a great gap in opportunity and living standards between the United States and Mexico. Rather than spending money on border guards and barriers, he said, we should spend money helping to build the Mexican economy, and we should continue to do so until the immigration stopped.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

As Bambi's mother said, why not blow a few extra bucks when the mood strikes?

Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

Which brings to mind a quote from Margaret Thatcher: 'Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

Although federal revenues nearly doubled during the Reagan years, federal spending far exceeded that pace and drove the national debt from $909 billion to $2.6 trillion between 1980 and 1988, by far the highest it had ever been.

Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.

Bitch I got money to blow, gettin it in. Lettin these bills fall over your skin.

Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I wont regret.

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

Between 1941 and 1946, the federal government spent more than it had from 1789 to 1941.

In 1952, Republicans spent $1.5 million on television advertising to the Democrats' puny $77,000.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.