Money Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Money Politician Politics Saving Saving money Spending
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
Tax dollars are not politicians' personal wallets, and they should stop treating them as such. — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and… — John W. Gardner Copy Share
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend. — Irwin Schiff Copy Share Image
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith. — John McCain Copy Share Image
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Maybe you can,t buy a big house.. A new car.. A huge diamond ring.. But if you have just one true friend who loves… — Cathy Copy Share Image
“Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!” — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image