Quotes About Spending

The digitisation of money, the rapid expansion of internet access and, of course, the adoption of mobile phones have created the perfect conditions to make it easier, secure, and affordable to save, spend, give, and borrow.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

Always have a plan when you shop. Have your list ready so that you know who you're purchasing gifts for and an estimate on how much you're going to spend.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

I don't give my money to the government.

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.

I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

Americanesia Expressaphobia, n 1. Financial affliction, first diagnosed in late twentieth century, where the sufferer forgets the amount charged on a credit card but is terribly afraid that it's way too much. Closely related to Visago, n, where a high level of debt prompts feelings of nausea and dizziness.

Each of us has an individualized perception of the purposes of money, and we have various emotions associated with spendint it.

Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Conservatives don't merely want less government. They want to raise spending for the military—even bring back Star Wars—not reduce it. They want to build more prisons. There is no move to eliminate the drug enforcement agency.