Top 72 Quotes About Money Wasted
#1. Although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales.
Tanya Huff
#2. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Anthony Burgess
#3. I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
Lou Holtz
#4. In his 1865 lecture on "Value, Price and Profit," Marx illustrated luxury consumption as money "wasted on flunkeys, horses, cats and so forth." It is some measure of progress that the general population can now afford to keep cats.
Anonymous
#5. If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
Clement Attlee
#6. This was not just money wasted but the construction of a false confidence based on an erroneous focus.
Anonymous
#7. Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
Brad Blanton
#8. Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
Robert G. Ingersoll
#9. He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.
Eugene O'Neill
#10. Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
Kevin Mitnick
#11. Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
Richard Wagner
#12. Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
Shirley Temple
#13. You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely
Sunday Adelaja
#14. It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
Paul Wolfowitz
#15. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan
#16. You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.
Holly Black
#17. If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!
Ljupka Cvetanova
#18. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
Cyril Smith
#23. And through it all was the pervasive sound of money. Money lost. Money found. Spent. Earned. Exchanged. Gambled. Wasted. Tainted lucre, wealth corrupted by those who found success on the suffering of others.
S.G. Night
#24. If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#25. Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register.
Jerry Della Femina
#26. I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
W.C. Fields
#27. Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that there's no point to me being a woman if I never have children."
"Well, if that's true, I wasted a hell of a lot of money on panty hose and lipstick." Jettie snorted.
Molly Harper
#28. It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
Jasmine Guinness
#29. Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.
John Adams
#30. The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!
Dada Bhagwan
#31. You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life
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#32. When you finally strip away all the material things in your house and closets, you realize how much time and money was spent wasted on things that you never really needed in the first place.
Simon Ruddy
#33. When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.
Michael Jai White
#34. I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
Winston Groom
#35. And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what!
L.M. Montgomery
#36. Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
Vince Cable
#37. I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
Ronnie Hawkins
#39. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If
Catherynne M Valente
#40. The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
George Bernard Shaw
#41. If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
Catherynne M Valente
#42. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.
Denis Waitley
#43. I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.
Mick Cornett
#44. Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker
#45. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.
Nell Freudenberger
#46. and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.
Tim Lane
#47. Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
Michael Porter
#48. When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
Rian Johnson
#50. I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
John Wanamaker
#51. I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.
Tom Felton
#52. A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted
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#54. The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.
Dmitry Medvedev
#55. It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money ...
David Ogilvy
#56. Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
Chris Martin
#57. I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.
Keith Murray
#58. I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.
Joel Plaskett
#59. Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
P. J. O'Rourke
#60. Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
Gillian Flynn
#61. O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
Peter S. Beagle
#62. I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted
George Best
#63. We signed on the dotted line for things we didn't know we cared about. We ate the things we shouldn't, spent money when we couldn't, lost sight of the Earth we had to inhabit and wasted wasted wasted everything.
Tahereh Mafi
#64. The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years.
Alison Moyet
#66. She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and each one is precious, to be wasted as she wishes.
Dexter Palmer
#67. Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
Bill Gates
#68. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#69. I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
Ellen DeGeneres
#70. While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Tony Campolo
#72. The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted
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