Not Spending Money Quotes

#1. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Barack Obama

#3. During the season ... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.

Clay Matthews III

#4. Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Jay Carney

#5. We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

Jim Cooper

#6. In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

George Orwell

#7. When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

Moses Malone

#8. People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work.

Mary Lasker

#9. Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.

Mark Neumann

#10. As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

Cal Thomas

#11. Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.

William Hartung

#12. I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Joe Jamail

#14. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Harry S. Truman

#15. There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds ... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

Bob Mould

#16. It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.

Bill Scott

#17. We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

Dennis Kucinich

#18. I bought a dress a few years ago for £2,500. It was outrageous and not the kind of money you want to be spending. I had a mad moment that day.

Sharleen Spiteri

#19. ... I charged most of our fun on Daddy's credit card. Not like he would notice or care. And if he did, he'd always said that if money didn't buy happiness, then people were spending it wrong.

Cora Carmack

#20. Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

Bob Brown

#21. I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

Eric Cantor

#22. To me pornography is ... spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

Bill Hicks

#23. Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society's so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I'm not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it's not just me.

Dan Groat

#24. 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.

#25. It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

Mike Huckabee

#26. (Spoken) words are considered an 'expense'. 'Speech' should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?

Dada Bhagwan

#27. You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.

Eric Schneiderman

#28. I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.

John Huston

#29. It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

Amit Ray

#30. The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the west, we're opening our purses and moths are flying out - but we've got to remember that, in other markets, this is not an issue.

Joe Staton

#31. Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Abigail Van Buren

#32. The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

Dick Armey

#33. We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

Tim Scott

#34. That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Paul Ryan

#35. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Steve Jobs

#36. Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does
and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.

Tom Rath

#37. We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Richard M. Nixon

#38. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.

Wes Craven

#39. Time is not waiting for you ; be wise on time spending because time is money .

Osunsakin Adewale

#40. It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry

#41. Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Thomas Huxley

#42. Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#43. We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Lawrence Korb

#44. You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

Rick Scott

#45. As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Tim Scott

#46. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

Rupert Murdoch

#47. My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.

George Muller

#48. In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

Gertrude Stein

#49. Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#50. Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

David Limbaugh

#51. It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

Ronald Reagan

#52. He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

Michael Apted

#53. We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

Jason Jennings

#54. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.

Mick Mulvaney

#56. Good spending decisions are made when we know we're spending money, not fooled into thinking we're saving money. --pg 52

Cristin Frank

#57. I have a lot of difficulty in a business culture that is only interested in making money. I can't see the point. What's the point of spending £10,000 just to make £20,000? Why not just keep the £10,000?

Peter Saville

#58. I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.

Richard Shepard

#59. It really helps if you are doing something you love instead of something you are just spending a bunch of money on. You can become very discouraged if you're not involved in something genuine, something that you believe in, and are committed to.

Jerry Baldwin

#60. The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much money. We have got to stop spending money we don't have.

Paul Ryan

#61. Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Roger Moore

#62. 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

#63. Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Calvin Coolidge

#64. I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.

Mitt Romney

#65. The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.

Dana Perino

#66. It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.

Immortal Technique

#67. Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.

Robert Reich

#68. 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

#69. Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

Saint John Chrysostom

#70. [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

Zell Miller

#71. You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

Huey Long

#72. The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

John Oates