Quotes About Responsibility

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage.

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!