Quotes About Overspending

There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

The post-Reagan era has been defined by overspending as the result of ideological overpromises.

who love God but spend more than what God has chosen to provide. They incur large amounts of debt and experience the shame and pressure that accompanies it. And they wind up feeling overwhelmed.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

Countries change, of course, and it is still the same country, in a way, resembling a McCarthy America, except that McCarthy's America was not in debt. This is a bankrupt America, bankrupted partly by its suspicions and overspending on the military and over-reliance on consumerism.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

More often than not, "spending" money you don't have comes from "expending" emotions you do have. This syndrome is commonly known as retail therapy. Overspending and the need for immediate gratification have little to do with the actual item you're buying, and everything to do with lack of fulfillment in your life.

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

overspenditis." Today, people can become infected with this condition from watching too much television, reading too many magazines and catalogs, or hanging out with free-spending friends. Unknowingly, Paul and Sara had been lured into believing that they needed to have and do all the things they saw their friends doing—whether or not the money was there.

I am the guilty gift-giver, which means that I am a gift-giver who lacks all sense of proportion.

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.

it had gotten France and Britain heavily in debt; they incurred at least ten times what they thought their financial costs would be

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Unfortunately we were living beyond our means. I didn't do the bills, I didn't have any idea what our financial situation was. We had the cars, the boat, the motorcycles and the houses. I didn't even know. And then when we got a divorce there wasn't a lot of money to split up and what there was, was spent on the divorce. It was really difficult.

extravagant generosity with other people's money.

I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.

The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.

One sign of these conditions is the ease with which people enter into debt and live contentedly with it. People are consciously living beyond their means in order to maintain the appearance of affluence. This is a product of wantonness: willingly falling headlong into debt in order to achieve a certain material standard of living.

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

Even a rich man can spend more than he's got coming in. And that makes him a poor man.

really could sell the U.S. military $12,000 toilets and $9,000 hammers and actually get away with it under a mountain of legal trickery and congressional hearing mumbo-jumbo.