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Quotes About Spending

total spent on Defense-related activities is close to $1 trillion a year.19 Even in this era of fiscal austerity, proposing significant cuts to military compensation and benefits is still considered political suicide for national politicians.
~ Rosa Brooks
I don't think we should spend any time wandering around that remote possibility. It's nice of you to wish me well, but actually I find it unbearably patronizing.
~ Maeve Binchy
The frivolous can waste more by the teaspoon than the frugal can bring home by the wheelbarrow.
~ Maggie Shayne
whenever he goes to the doctor's office is that forty cents of every health-care dollar goes to either fraud or waste.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
whats the point to spend money you haven't earned, to buy thingsyou don't need, to impress people you don't like
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
The more you worry about your spending, the less you focus on increasing your capacity.
~ Sola Kosoko
Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly...
~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
em unless you got the money to pay." Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped
~ Andrew Solomon
Excuse me, Pinchy," I say quickly (before he can start a third verse), "but isn't everything in the Two-Dollar Shop always only two dollars?
~ Andy Griffiths
Buying is much more American than thinking.
~ Andy Warhol
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.
~ Samuel Johnson
Ng??i tiêu xài nhi?u như ti?t ki?m ???c chính là ng??i hài lòng nh?t, b?i anh ta có c? hai ni?m vui.
~ Samuel Johnson
In other words, every cent the French government spent on guns for the Americans was another centime it would not have to spend on butter for the starving peasants who would one day storm Versailles.
~ Sarah Vowell
spending semesters at MIT, where he was completing a doctorate in Game Theory.
~ Scott Turow
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
~ John Barrymore
If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.
~ John Berendt
Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.
~ John Boozman
A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
~ Ai Weiwei
Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One consequence: Much of the material buried in landfills in recent years was bought with those same credit cards, leading to the quintessentially American practice of consumers continuing to pay, sometimes for years, for purchases after they become trash.
~ Edward Humes
Last year, it cost the British taxpayers $57.8 million to maintain its royal family," wrote Robert Keith Gray in Presidential Perks Gone Royal. "During that same year, it cost American taxpayers some $1.4 billion to house and serve the Obamas in the White House, along with their families, friends and visiting campaign contributors.
~ Edward Klein
The new economy requires consumers with spending power – just as the old one did. Yet much like the farmer who eats his seed corn, Big Data is gobbling up its source of future revenue.
~ Edward Luce
Write down everything you spend. The waste in your daily spending should soon become apparent.
~ Edward O. Thorp
I'll give you treasure chests full of gold pieces, I know the value of spending time with you." I
~ Elena Ferrante
Pero como en los tiempos más recientes, las mujeres no suelen ahorrar y, como toda mala pagadora, tiene más deseos que dinero; al hombre le falta mucho por aguantar; allá donde mira encuentra deudas. Lo que puede reunir, ella lo gasta, en su cuerpo o en su amante; y también come mejor y bebe más con el miserable ejército de galanteadores. Esto aumenta en mí el ansia de oro: soy masculino, soy el afán.
~ Antonio Machado