Quotes About Spending

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

You cannot stage plays to make money. That's quite impossible until our people start spending more on tickets.

The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending.

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.

I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers' pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition—which is where we always plan to be.

Whatever you have, spend less.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

she costing me but little compared with other wives, and I have not many occasions to spend on her.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.