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Quotes About Expenditure

I am probably porous because it costs a lot to not be aware.
~ Louise Erdrich
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.
~ William Vickrey
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
~ William Vickrey
Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.
~ Alan Patricof
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
~ Frederick Douglass
The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.
~ Frederick Douglass
ils vont à dépenser je sais pas combien de millions pour des bateaux qui se font couler, pour des avions qui prennent en feu, pour des tanks qui durent pas trois jours. L'argent s'en va pour la destruction pis se détruit lui-même.
~ Gabrielle Roy
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
To build more human economies in Africa, governments must be far more strategic, wise, and forward-looking in their expenditure and build diverse economies that are going to deliver the jobs for the next generation.
~ Winnie Byanyima
True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
~ Orison Swett Marden
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
did not fulfil the whole of the promised payment to Sir Thomas for the French lords, cousin.' I smiled at Edward. 'Many would think you parsimonious but we know that you were merely stretched with other expenditure. And of course you were displeased, as would any proud man be
~ Anne O'Brien
This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.
~ Annie Dillard
I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
~ Rufus Wainwright
Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.
~ John Keay
It is, it seems, politically impossible for a capitalistic democracy to organize expenditure on the scale necessary to make the grand experiments which would prove my case—except in war conditions
~ John Maynard Keynes
Where they were concerned, the ban, the check, the caution as to all spending and most of all the expenditure of feeling restricted them. Wariness had driven away poetry: from hesitating to feel came the moment you no longer could.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.
~ Cardi B
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.
~ Suze Orman
Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
~ Imtiaz Ali
The Boers 'must be helped to rebuild their farms; the gold mines must do that. What more fitting function for the wealth of South African soil (better build farms in South Africa than palaces in Park Lane!†).' This change, from the happy warrior to the young MP who could now say, 'I hate and abominate all this expenditure on military armaments,' was one of his first transformations.
~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity
~ George Eliot