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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• 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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• The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Information, Reason Why

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 20, 2015

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

  John Hope Bryant

  Success, Money, Two

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• Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

  Robert M. Gates

  Defense

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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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• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2015

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• I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Investing

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• Don't spend money on things... spend money on experiences. You'll enjoy life a lot more!

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Life, Money, Fun

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• In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."

  Louis H. Wilson, Jr.

  Time, Military, Marine

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• Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

  Thom Mayne

  Patience, Time, Writing

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