Quotes About Spending

A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

ANNA AND I spent the holidays in Washington, taking time off when we could.

On the demand side, tax cuts should lead to more consumer spending—although by how much depends on the form of the cuts and who receives them—

But lawmakers had avoided tackling those critical long-run issues in favor of near-term spending cuts and tax increases that weakened the already weak economy.

I expressed no preference for whether the stimulus should take the form of tax cuts, spending increases, or both.

much of the effect was offset by spending cuts and tax increases undertaken by state and local governments.

lower long-term interest rates (to stimulate spending and investment) and raise short-term rates (to protect the value of the dollar, supposedly).

why isn't cutting government spending a viable alternative to maintaining high taxes?

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

I will freely spend nineteen shillings in the pound to defend my right of giving or refusing the other shilling.

For 6£ a year you may have use of 100£, if you are a man of known prudence and honesty. He that spends a groat a-day idly, spends idly above 6£ a year, which is the price of using 100£.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain.

The intelligent investor realizes that stocks become more risky, not less, as their prices rise—and less risky, not more, as their prices fall. The intelligent investor dreads a bull market, since it makes stocks more costly to buy. And conversely (so long as you keep enough cash on hand to meet your spending needs), you should welcome a bear market, since it puts stocks back on sale. 8

Het voornaamste probleem met die Tijdbesparingsobsessie ligt heel eenvoudig: tijd kun je niet besparen. Je kunt hem alleen besteden.

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.

The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.