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Quotes About Finances

he who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.
~ George S. Clason
Disfruta de la vida mientras estés aquí. No te esfuerces de más ni trates de ahorrar demasiado. Si una décima parte es todo lo que puedes ahorrar cómodamente, conténtate con quedarte con esa porción. Vive de acuerdo con tus ingresos y no vivas de manera avara ni tengas temor de gastar. La vida es buena y la vida es rica con cosas que valen la pena y cosas que disfrutar».
~ George S. Clason
however much such loans may temporarily relieve the situation, the Government is still indebted for the amount of the surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimately pay, while its ability to pay is not strengthened, but weakened by a continued deficit.
~ George Washington
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
~ Aaron Patzer
Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.
~ George Osborne
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
~ David Wilkerson
I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.
~ Ben Harney
In the decades after the Civil War, as bankrupt former Confederate states with a historical aversion to raising taxes tried to restore their public finances, priosner leasing became standard practice across the South. Not only did it negate the need to build large prisons but, since private companies essentially bought the right to prisoners' labor from the state, it also served to generate revenue.
~ Sasha Abramsky
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
~ Ben Stein
I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.
~ Chuck Mosley
I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.
~ Russ Feingold
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
~ William Cowper
Time is money, but also money is money.
~ William Gibson
So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A large part of the task is helping people negotiate the overwhelming anxiety—anxiety about death, anxiety about suffering, anxiety about loved ones, anxiety about finances," she explained. "There are many worries and real terrors." No one conversation can address them all. Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality and a clear understanding of the limits and the possibilities of medicine is a process, not an epiphany.
~ Atul Gawande
But the dismal finances of geriatrics are only a symptom of a deeper reality: people have not insisted on a change in priorities.
~ Atul Gawande
God has not given me a spirit of fear, so why am I so consumed with worry over my children, my finances, my future? If the fear of man is a snare, why do I still find I am terrified of exposing my true self and then being rejected?
~ Stasi Eldredge
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
~ Johnny Carson
His boss had been muttering about possible redundancies for months. There were murmurings at home about debts and the juggling of credit cards. Dad had had his car written off by an uninsured driver two years previously, and somehow this had been enough for the whole teetering edifice that was my parents' finances to finally collapse. My modest wages had been a little bedrock of housekeeping money, enough to help see the family through from week to week.
~ Jojo Moyes
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
~ English proverb
When other life factors were considered, the people who were happiest were those who were most satisfied with their household finances, and the next happiest were those who had good health. Marriage came in third.
~ Bella DePaulo
The Double Cross system was now not only self-financing but profitable, to Masterman's delight: "The actual cash supplied by the Germans to maintain their and our system between 1940 and 1945 was something in the region of £85,000"—the equivalent of more than £4.5 million today.
~ Ben Macintyre
We also proposed limits on penalties imposed on borrowers who prepaid their mortgages.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
~ Benjamin Franklin