Quotes About Budgeting

#1. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

Ben Bernanke

#2. The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.

Scott McCallum

#3. I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

Carly Fiorina

#4. The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

Jim Costa

#5. The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

Thomas J. Stanley

#6. As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

Ridley Scott

#7. My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Jennifer Garner

#8. The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.

Carly Fiorina

#9. You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

David Harsanyi

#10. What is the purpose of budgeting? Most

James C. Collins

#11. I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

Imelda May

#12. They became millionaires by budgeting and controlling expenses, and they maintain their affluent status the same way. Sometimes

Thomas J. Stanley

#13. Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Emily Oster

#14. I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

Anthea Turner

#15. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

Marvin J. Ashton

#16. Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is ... zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

Ted Cruz

#17. It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

Alexa Von Tobel

#18. Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

James Surowiecki

#19. Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.

Alfred Amoroso

#20. The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

Russ Feingold

#21. I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.

Steve Truglia

#22. I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#23. Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.

Leslie Tayne

#24. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

Calvin Coolidge

#25. If she'd kept up her AAA membership, she would have called them, but after the divorce, she'd had to cut some things out. Roadside assistance was one of them. Aargh.

Melody Snow Monroe

#26. A penny saved is worth two pennies earned ... after taxes.

Randy Thurman

#27. Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Samuel Pepys

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

William Feather

#29. Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

Joe Biden

#30. It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

Sinclair Lewis

#31. We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

George Washington

#32. Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

Malcolm Rifkind

#33. You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

Thomas Hughes