Top 100 Quotes About Expenses
#1. But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
Kathleen Parker
#2. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Sam Walton
#4. Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#5. It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin
#6. A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
Jean De La Bruyere
#7. We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?
Newt Gingrich
#8. At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?
Tony Robbins
#9. He's a gazillionaire. I barely make expenses every month. He owns mansions all over the world; I co-rent a townhouse in Alexandria with my best friend. Women fall all over themselves to go out with him. I haven't had a date since forever.
Magda Alexander
#10. When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.
T.D. Jakes
#11. The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.
Noam Chomsky
#12. Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.
Milton Friedman
#13. Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
Plutarch
#14. Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.
John Sununu
#15. From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
Mike McGavick
#16. Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
#17. The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#19. We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn't everything.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Keep expenses low, reduce liabilities, and diligently build a base of solid assets.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#21. Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
Brit Hume
#22. The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
Benjamin Franklin
#23. You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.
T. Harv Eker
#24. We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.
George W. Bush
#25. As a good rule of thumb, you want to secure 3-months of living expenses on the side, just in case shit hits the fan. Ideally, you'll want a 6-month rainy-day fund because it never hurts to fall back on much more.
Jay Breezy
#26. I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.
Katrina Kaif
#27. The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Warren Buffett
#28. On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.
John Lanchester
#29. Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
Thomas Frank
#30. Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
Wanda Urbanska
#31. Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.
Robert Adams
#33. You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.
Henry Samueli
#34. It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make.
Robert Kiyosaki
#35. Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.
Thomas Jefferson
#36. If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
Oliver Goldsmith
#37. When you know the impact of little expenses, you will realise that there is nothing little in this world.
Manoj Arora
#38. And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses.
C.S. Lewis
#40. When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.
Kenneth Langone
#41. A: 10% savings 10% donation 35% housing and living expenses 25% food 5% entertainment 6-10% retirement (more if you're older) 3-5% college fund for children
Celso Cukierkorn
#42. I want people to like me but not at my expense.
Aubrey Plaza
#43. Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
Aryn Kyle
#44. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.
George S. Clason
#45. The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.
James Cash Penney
#46. When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
Heather Brooke
#47. Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
Horace Mann
#48. The HSA (Health Savings Account) is a great way to save on premiums. The high deductible creates a much lower premium, and this plan allows you to save for medical expenses in a tax-free savings account.
Dave Ramsey
#49. In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.
Andrew Johnson
#51. When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
Byron Dorgan
#52. The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.
Burton Malkiel
#53. So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
John Quincy Adams
#54. You have no control over the market. You can't predict where it will go, and you can't bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand - an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.
Jean Chatzky
#55. All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.
Ronnie Chan
#57. Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income!
Honeya
#58. Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
Anandamayi Ma
#59. Whatever you know in your heart, live at the expense of anything else.
John De Ruiter
#60. There is no denying that auto-bill pay is easier and more convenient than keeping track of and remembering to pay all of your bills each month, so it makes sense to use it for fixed expenses that you have approved and that you're 100% comfortable with.
Alexa Von Tobel
#61. Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.
Jeff Miller
#62. Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.
Chuck Palahniuk
#63. Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.
Nicola Sturgeon
#64. It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources
Sunday Adelaja
#65. If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#66. Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.
Tim Scott
#68. For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
Warren Buffett
#71. Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Benjamin Franklin
#72. My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.
Chris Isaak
#73. To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
Juvenal
#74. A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
#75. The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.
William J. Bernstein
#76. Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.
Esai Morales
#77. Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.
Andrew Mayne
#78. To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Juvenal
#79. 3A.02 WAR
Expenses for war equipment,
Training and peoples recruitment,
Be at the cost of hunger and pride,
Humanity be charred in this ride.
[196] - 3A
Munindra Misra
#80. A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.
Lord Byron
#81. All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
Frank Lloyd Wright
#82. Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
Malachy McCourt
#83. I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.
David Duval
#84. Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#85. Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.
Teresa Bloomingdale
#86. My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.
Jenn Proske
#87. When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.
Jean Chatzky
#88. A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.
Orrin Woodward
#89. I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Edward Gibbon
#90. If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc.
Lynsey Addario
#91. ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Ambrose Bierce
#92. It's a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody's expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone's expense.
Richard Kalvar
#93. Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.
Mal Fletcher
#94. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
Louise Hart
#96. When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.
Robert Reich
#97. We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.
Donella Meadows
#98. In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
Jules Verne
#99. Operate ahead of time. Plan your finances. Raise income. Reduce expenses. Save more. Invest diligently. Borrow for growth. Be generous.
Snehdeep Fulzule
#100. My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact.
Nigel S. Wright
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