Budgets Quotes

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

  William Feather

  Money, Business, Budgeting

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

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• The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Government, Goal

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

  Paul Ryan

  Reform, Debt, Propose

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• Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Giving, Challenges

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

  William E. Gladstone

  Class, Roots, Kingdoms

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• The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

  Matt Taibbi

  Agency, Government, Long

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• The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Ruins, Unbalanced

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Couple, Women, Months

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  A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

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• People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government Welfare, People, Libertarian

  "A Pillar of Iron". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1965.

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• Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

  Jane D. Hull

  Challenges, Important, Faces

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• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

  Jackie Mason

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  Jackie Mason (1983). “Jackie Mason's America”, Lyle Stuart

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

  Jaime Lerner

  Zero, Creativity, Cutting

  "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, edition.cnn.com. June 06, 2008.

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• To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

  Sarah Palin

  Cutting, Government, Mind

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last.

  Michael S. Smith

  Lasts

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

  Robert De Niro

  Giving, Advice, Schedules

  Source: www.readersdigest.co.uk

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• I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

  Matt Lucas

  Jobs, Real, Decision

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friends

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, Creative, Use

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• In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. It's worked, up until now. Now these papers can't afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.

  Ben Katchor

  Color, America, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.

  Werner Herzog

  Talking, Film, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• [Donald Trump] supports the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, while complaining about budget expenditures. He presumably intends to go forward with the $1 trillion nuclear modernization plan.

  David Krieger

  Support, Complaining, Nuclear

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.

  Ralph Nader

  Home, People, Expansion

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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