Money Wasted Quotes

• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Use

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.38

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I cannot afford to waste my time making money

  Louis Agassiz

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Waste, Frugality, Industry

  Benjamin Franklin (1834). “The Life & Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.160

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• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Money, Business, Marketing

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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• I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

  Lou Holtz

  Hate, Believe, Accountability

  "Lou Holtz Coaching Conservatives to Victory". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

  Richard Wagner

  Divorce, Mad, Heartfelt

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• Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

  Shirley Temple

  Mean, Trouble, Wasted Time

  "Shirley Temple Black, Hollywood's Biggest Little Star, Dies at 85" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

  George Osborne

  Running, Doors, People

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• Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Progress, World, Superstitions

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.310, Library of Alexandria

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• Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems

  Kevin Mitnick

  People, Dollars, Use

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• Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

  Brad Blanton

  Honesty, Alternatives, Waste

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• If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.

  Clement Attlee

  Blow, Arms, Helping

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• Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Looks, Fiction

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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