Budgeting Quotes

• I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Business, Thinking, Use

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• The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Iraq, Administration

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• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

  Joseph E. Levine

  Business, Stupid, People

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• A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

  William Feather

  Money, Business, Buying

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Business, Decision, Watches

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• That’s why you call it a budget.  You set it and you don’t budge.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Funny, Actresses, Finance

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• The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Mean, Practice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Foundation, Defense, Stones

  Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.38, Government Institutes

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• I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

  Anthea Turner

  People, Magic, Cards

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

  Emily Oster

  Decision, Trump, Decision Making

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• I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Zero, Moving, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.

  Carly Fiorina

  Zero, Moving, Cutting

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

  Lewis Black

  Adults, Doe, Week

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• With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Writing, Mind

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• All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

  Mark Skousen

  Salary, Income, Matter

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• I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and other big government Republicans hijacked the conservative cause". Book by Richard A Viguerie, p. 46, 2006.

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• Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Business, Thinking, Income

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• The idea here is for communities to decide how they meet these criteria for becoming sustainable economically, ecologically and socially.Through a community decision-making process. And exactly how that would be configured, you know, remains to be established. The process of community budgeting, participatory budgeting, is one model that's been suggested.

  Jill Stein

  Ideas, Community, Decision

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

  George Will

  Business, Government, Long

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• If you look at countries that are comparable, like Switzerland or Germany, for example, they have mixed systems. They don't have just a single-payer system, but they have very clear controls over budgeting and accountability.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Accountability, Switzerland

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Husband, Real, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

  Jennifer Garner

  Art, Crazy, College

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Jennifer Garner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing out deals to specific groups. Coolidge fixed a problem like that. He came into a rough time and he, and Harding before him, fixed that by budgeting.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Groups, Problem

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place; so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.

  George Weigel

  Real, Nephew, Finance

  Source: eppc.org

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• Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Thinking, People

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