Quotes About Finances

That feeling of over-due bills, of bills coming due, of accounts overdrawn, of tradesmen unpaid, of general money cares, is very dreadful at first; but it is astonishing how soon men get used to it.

Folks say he's up to his neck in debts. He doesn't even own the hair on his head.

A particular kind of patriotism, promises of adventure, finances. This is how boys end up soldiers.

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

The Empire had no political cohesion, no capital city, no common laws, common finances, or common officials. It was the relic of a dead ideal.

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.

I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.

I haven't been somebody who's been smart about his money. There are a couple of actors who are quite brilliant with the way they've handled their money. But they're not very good actors.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

Everyone doesn't need Medicare. The people who can afford to pay for their healthcare should pay.

I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it.

He must pay his debts with all the promptness within his power, not purchasing that for which he is unable to pay