Spending Money Quotes - Page 2

• We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

  Barack Obama

  President, Reform, Needs

  First presidential debate, edition.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

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• Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

  Carol Roth

  Investing Money, Differences, Risk

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• The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

  Scott Kahn

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

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• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, Care

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• The entire world economy rests on the consumer;
  if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have
  on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Needs, Done

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

  Tim Scott

  Loud, Spending, Clear

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Sex, Children, Ideas

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• I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

  Joyce Brothers

  Pleasure, Spending, My Own

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• The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  George Will

  People, Political, Erotic

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• We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

  Douglas Carswell

  People, Problem, Spending

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• Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Cheer, Turkeys, Long

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• There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

  E. W. Howe

  Marriage, Money, Men

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• There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Political, Want

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

  Hume Cronyn

  Money, Hate, Spending

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• When this song come on, I'm spending money...Play something I can spend some money to.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Song, Play

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• Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Joy

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• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Giving, Spending

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3954, Delphi Classics

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• We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Years, Coal

  George W. Bush Discusses Strengthening Social Security in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 8, 2005.

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• The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Keys, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  Warren Beatty

  Wings, People, Giving

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• Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

  Gene Tierney

  Son, Spending, Chaplin

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Cutting, Government

  Michele Bachmann's response to State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 26, 2011.

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• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  Jack Ma

  Jobs, Helping Others, People

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