Quotes About Expenses

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

It's expensive to produce musicals on television.

In other words, over those three decades, while the number of students grew by half, the amount of money they borrowed each year increased twelvefold.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

The amount of 'new goods' added much to the cost of a funeral. Kid gloves, scarves, hatbands, most of which were retained by the mourners, had to be bought new.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times.

For example, after a half-century of Johnson's "Great Society" welfare programs, which have cost trillions of dollars, the national poverty rate remains roughly the same as it was in the 1960s.55 And despite countless promises by President Obama that his policies would make health coverage and college more affordable,56 health insurance costs and college expenses57 are significantly higher than they were when Obama implemented his reforms.

Bonuses went up. And a rich person puts the extra dollar in the bank while a poor person pays the rent. So

Our sixth child, MariaVictoria, when she was born, before any of us could hand MariaVictoria to my wife Rachel, Uncle Sam stepped in and handed her a bill for $43,000.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

If you build a 70,000-seat stadium it will cost much more than double to build than a 35,000-seater. The higher the seat the more expensive it is to construct.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.