Top 167 Expenditure Quotes & Sayings

Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

Our costliest expenditure is time.

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and they don't like it.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

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 weakest part of society.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.

If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

To us, the definition of philanthropy is what we spend. A P&L account means expenditure, lines of revenue. There is a surplus; it goes to the balance sheet. A transparent foundation should disclose this.

Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.

The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.

I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax dollars.

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A "good" consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.