A Quote by Richard Branson

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

Richard Branson

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Avoid Expenses Lean Run Unnecessary

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Richard Branson
British - Businessman
Born: July 18, 1950

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

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

If taxpayers' money goes into paying salaries and bearing expenses of Air India and other entities that require funding every year, then the government needs to evaluate if it can run them successfully or let someone else run it.

Anurag Thakur

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

Cato the Elder

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

Joyce Cary

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Do not lean on your own understanding." That means don't bring in the crutches and lean on them, those crutches that you have designed and made to handle such situations. Stay away from them. Don't lean on them; lean on God.

Charles R. Swindoll

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

Miranda July

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

Kage Baker

The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

Doug Ducey

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Derek Jeter

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

John Irving

So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run.