Quotes About Wasting Money

#1. I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.

Lucy Knisley

#2. We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

Marguerite Moreau

#3. It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

Prince Philip

#4. If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.

Mark Wahlberg

#5. And frankly, if IT isn't helping you operate how you want - and need - to operate, you are wasting money. There is no chance that your IT investments will lead to strategic benefits.

Peter Weill

#6. I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill.

Peter Menzel

#7. Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

Paul Bremer

#8. If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

George Soros

#9. If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

Lamar Alexander

#10. Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

#11. The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that.

Lewis Pugh

#12. Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

Andy Warhol

#13. If you're wasting time, you're wasting money ... and that's just sick.

Mr. Krabs

#14. I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Big Sean

#15. I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Stanley Tucci

#16. So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.

Jonathan Haidt

#17. I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

Boy George

#18. The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

Maria Montessori

#19. Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.

Van Jones

#20. Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.

J.R. Rim

#21. I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Henry Rollins

#22. What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Rick Baker

#24. The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money ...

Doug Bandow

#25. Plus, if someone is doing community service for a pat on the back, then they're wasting their time. Giving of yourself or your money is meaningless if you're only doing it because you want to be seen or praised.

Melody Anne

#26. Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though."
Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer."
"There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.

Rachel Vincent

#27. It is all one spectacle of forces running to waste, of people who use and do not replace, the story of a country hectic with a wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking.

H.G.Wells

#28. Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

Jay Leno

#29. The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.

J.R. Rim

#30. If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#31. World War One were simply additional places of hideously dangerous work, where a few men could supervise the wasting of millions of lives in the hopes of making money. It

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. There is a certain elegance in wasting time. Any fool can waste money, but when you waste time you waste what is priceless.

W. Somerset Maugham

#33. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

Alex Webb

#34. Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Sharon Salzberg

#35. Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

L. Ron Hubbard

#36. Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today

Sunday Adelaja

#37. Time is not money because it never returns.

Amit Abraham

#38. Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life

Sunday Adelaja

#39. Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted

Sunday Adelaja

#40. If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

Alan W. Watts

#41. There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

Shelley Berkley

#42. The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#44. We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

Steve Blank

#45. What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

Seth Godin

#46. Sometimes you've got to kill 4 or 5
thousand men before you somehow
get to believe that the sparrow
is immortal, money is piss and
that you have been wasting
your time.

Charles Bukowski

#47. Yes, when you are passionate about something, it shows. There is no point doing something that does not make you feel happy just to earn money. If you hate what you are doing, you are then just wasting your life,

Preeti Shenoy

#48. You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.

Henry Giroux