Quotes About Spending

The biggest mistake so far," said Rudolph G. Penner, who was the chief economist in the Ford Administration's budget office, "was to urge this tremendous cut in taxes without reducing spending sufficiently. That is a major mistake that will have profound long run costs.

My job in my marriage was to choose houses and decorate them," she said. "My husband's job was to pay for them. Making money was the only thing that interested him, and he didn't care what I spent.

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

On every shopping trip, there is one indulgence.

I am delighted to see the government spending more money to improve Indigenous life, and I would be happy to see even more spent.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

When you feel house poor, you don't buy anything. Housing immediately impacts the job numbers because there are so many housing-related jobs within the industry, and in adjacent industries.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

Spending on infrastructure will help employment.

Borrowing isn't inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing.

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending ' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

was not an economist. So, in thinking about how to solve the problem, I decided to start with the big picture. The root cause of inflation in Brazil was really very simple: The government spent more than it earned. When the budget turned up a big deficit every year, as it inevitably did, the government printed more money to cover the difference. Any grade-school student knows, however, that you can't just print endless amounts of cash without having something tangible to back it up.

The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.

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If Capitalism has a definition it includes, surely, the concept value for money. You do not spend any more than your have to; you go where labour is cheapest, resources most bountiful, rules most lax, governments most permissive. Yet you also pay an idiot a fortune for doing nothing, and it is hard to see why. And if he is a hereditary idiot, very hard to see why.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

millennials are a median age of twenty-seven. There's seventy-five to eighty million of us. We are now the biggest group of employees in the workforce. There's more of us than boomers or gen X. We're also approaching peak spending years. And so as a foundational part of the economy, millennials are by far the most important group for the next forty years. And so, as a business, that's the group you want to build your audience around.