Quotes About Overspending

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Congress is not an ATM.

There is a belief, at least on the part of the American people, that they can borrow money forever without consequence.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Chances are excellent that deep down you're scared to stop overspending because you're trying to fill an emotional hole with stuff and experiences.

Buying a luxury on credit often causes a person to eventually resent that luxury because the debt becomes a financial burden.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.

Transparency was a guardian of frugality, just as confusion had been a handmaiden of extravagance.

the fabled three horsemen of the fiscal apocalypse—fraud, waste, and abuse

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.