Expenditure Quotes
94 Expenditure quotes by 85 unique authors
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Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in…
— William Vickrey
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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is…
— Walter Karp
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I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
— Evelyn Waugh
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The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if…
— David Starr Jordan
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To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at…
— Dorothy Draper
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Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.
— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.
— Salvador Dali
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One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing…
— Mark Skousen
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In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Expenditure rises to meet income.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to…
— Henry George
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...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
— Smedley Butler
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Our costliest expenditure is time.
— Theophrastus
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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…
— Harry S. Truman
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I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with…
— George W. Bush
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Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but…
— Mohsin Hamid
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
— Carl Jung
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Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This…
— Unknown Author
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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the…
— Mariano Rajoy
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You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small…
— Satyajit Ray
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A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was…
— Laurence Olivier
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