Spending Quotes - Page 17

• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Giving, Shining

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• So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Long, Hard

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Missionary

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Want, Absence

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.155, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Ignorant, Age, Youth

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

  Caitlin Moran

  Reading, Feminist, Rising

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• It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

  Gary Neville

  Hate, Player, Decision

  "Gary Neville hits out at 'mollycoddled' modern players", www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2009.

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• I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

  Dave Reichert

  Helping, Congress

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• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

  Robin Sharma

  Summer, Morning, Stars

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

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• The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.

  John Denver

  Two, Race, People

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• As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  Jack Markell

  Jobs, School, Creating

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• The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

  Che Guevara

  America, Dreamer, Saving

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• Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate...
  He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

  Don Imus

  Years, Leader, Trying

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• If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?

  Jordan Belfort

  Average, Twenties, Dollars

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.176, Bantam

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• Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

  Tayari Jones

  Pain, Dwelling, Texture

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• The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Drinking, Sleep, Talking

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• I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.

  Craig Armstrong

  Military, Believe, Should Have

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• The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

  Bob Riley

  Children, School, Focus

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• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

  P. T. Barnum

  Training, Dollars, Goes On

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

  Jesse McCartney

  School, Careers, People

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

  John Grier Hibben

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

  Prince Harry

  Kids, Buzz, Spending Time

  "Prince Harry on emotional coming-of-age tour". Interview with Seth Doane, www.cbsnews.com. March 14, 2012.

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• My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Let Google do its job and you do your job.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Recovery, Years, Investment

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