Spending Quotes - Page 30

• I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Marketing, Four, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Healthy, Healthcare

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

  Paul Krugman

  Bridges, Magic, Tanks

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

  Henry Rollins

  Numbers, Life And Death, Way

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

  Jack LaLanne

  Extra Time, Needs, Use

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• We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

  Kristi Noem

  People, Trying, Needs

  "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class" by Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.

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• We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

  Kristi Noem

  Jobs, Growth, Debt

  "Noem Criticizes 'Expensive and Ineffective' Programs". www.mitchellrepublic.com. March 10, 2011.

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• When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.

  Kristi Noem

  Needs, Looks, Addresses

  "Rep. Noem: Senate Budget Proposals ‘Ridiculous’". Fox News Interview, www.newsmax.com. March 11, 2011.

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• We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

  Paul Ryan

  Problem, Taxes, Revenue

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• Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Time, Purpose, Matter

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

  Alfie Kohn

  Essence, Goal, Perspective

  Alfie Kohn (2013). “No Contest: The Case Against Competition”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

  Dave Ramsey

  Dysfunction, Guilt, Stuff

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• Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

  David Malpass

  Littles, Moral, Politician

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• They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

  Robert Reischauer

  Fighting, Two, Want

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• Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

  Gary Pruitt

  Views, Trends, December

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• The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

  Scott Kahn

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

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• It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

  Robert Higgs

  Lines, Littles, Poverty

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• I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

  Brandon Bays

  Spiritual, Years, World

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• Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Jobs, School, Giving

  "Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Memetic Hazards in Videogames - Less Wrong". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2010.

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• More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Children, Women, Responsibility

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.

  Jim Stanford

  Capitalist Economy, Gdp, Important

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

  Ian Bremmer

  Intelligent, Government, Safety

  "The End of the Free Market: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer". Interview with Scott Horton, harpers.org. May 07, 2010.

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• In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Running, Fall, Mean

  "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore". hbswk.hbs.edu. June 09, 2003.

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• When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, Government, Talking

  "Lawrence Lessig Has a “Moonshot” Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy". Interview with Joshua Holland, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2014.

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• While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.

  St. Vincent

  Jesus, People, Saint

  Song: Jesus Saves, I Spend, Album: Marry Me, 2007

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