Quotes About Expenditure

Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

Money comes to life as it is spent.

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

furniture n. habitability improvements (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy paid $31,672 for a couch, 20 dining room chairs, and a loveseat for the destroyer USS Kidd. The furniture was called "habitability improvements.

Instead, anxious to maintain their revenues at a time of low production and high military expenditure, the Company, in one of the greatest failures of corporate responsibility in history, rigorously enforced tax collection and in some cases even increased revenue assessments by 10 per cent.

The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.

Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion of current GDP would mean spending £2.5bn.