Spending Quotes

• It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Work, Greatest Wealth, Energy

  "Madame Sarah". Book by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi, 1966.

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• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Army, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.277

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  Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

  John Hope Bryant

  Success, Money, Two

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• I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

  Douglas Adams

  Money, Funny Life, Years

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

  Jim Rohn

  Education, Money, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 09, 2016

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• It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Money, Nice

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 09, 2012

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• Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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• Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Running, Being Yourself

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  God, Religious, Time

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• I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

  Aziz Ansari

  Time, Reading, Book

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  Lana Turner

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

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• If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Money, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

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• If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

  Steve Pavlina

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

  John Perkins

  Education, War, Food

  John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Family, Success

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• Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

  Armand Salacrou

  Way, Pleasure, Economy

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• I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Mother, Money, Father

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Government, Doe, Federal Government

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• If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

  Jim Rohn

  Regret, Dust, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 05, 2016

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• The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Vocabulary, Political

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