Spending Quotes - Page 24

• Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Human Nature, Politician

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• According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the Bank and the City seem to think this is wrong, and that if people work harder they should be punished by having their mortgages increased.

  Harry Enfield

  Mean, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Perfect, Important

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• Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.

  Evan Davis

  Cutting, Demand, Economy

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• Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.

  Michael Enzi

  Effort, Having Fun, Dollars

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• The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

  Michael Enzi

  People, Needs, Matter

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• I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Television, Arguing

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

  Julian Baggini

  Years, Want, Months

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• Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Barack Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Want, Rich, Break

  "The Stink of Desperation: Why Republicans Lie" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

  Geoff Davis

  America, Government, Regulation

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• We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Strong, Heart, Exercise

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• My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Summer, Jobs, Nebraska

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• I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

  Deb Fischer

  Jobs, Reform, Serious

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• It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

  Alex Grey

  School, Museums, Boston

  "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.

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• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  Garet Garrett

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Might

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

  Michel Gondry

  Encouragement, Years, Parent

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

  Jessica Alba

  Kids, Directors, Agents

  "Jessica Alba In ‘Elle’: Shows Skin, Talks Motherhood". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.

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• To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

  Shinzo Abe

  Children, Japan, Issues

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• Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Vaccines, Childhood, Dollars

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Years, Together, Loved Ones

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• Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

  Susan Estrich

  Party, Nuts, People

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• I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.

  George Harrison

  Mind, Quality, Whole

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• We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Years, Politics, Quitting

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• Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Thinking, Demand

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Groups, More Time

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