Welcome to Expenses Quotes, where we delve into the diverse perspectives and insights surrounding the concept of expenses. From renowned figures to everyday individuals, the notion of expenses resonates universally, shaping our financial habits, priorities, and outlook on life. Whether viewed as a burden or a necessary investment, expenses encapsulate the choices we make, reflecting our values, aspirations, and the intricacies of our lifestyles.
In this collection, we explore the multifaceted nature of expenses, offering a tapestry of quotes that illuminate the spectrum of human experiences with financial matters. From pragmatic reflections on budgeting and thriftiness to philosophical musings on the value of money and the pursuit of wealth, these quotes invite introspection and provoke thought. As we navigate the complexities of managing expenses in a world driven by consumption and capitalism, these words serve as beacons of wisdom, guiding us towards mindful spending and fiscal responsibility. Discover the wisdom, wit, and wisdom on expenses from various voices throughout history and across cultures.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. Keith Henson
Sometimes I think the easiest way to introduce what goes into managing the expenses of a tennis career is to take a look at another pro sport and notice some of the differences. John Isner
Do you have an emergency fund? If not, build one – aim for three months of expenses to start, then boost it to six. It will ease your anxiety and get you out of a potential jam. Jean Chatzky
I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him. Alan Dershowitz
Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated. Nicola Sturgeon
If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc. Lynsey Addario
When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, ‘If I raise taxes, I’ll drive people out of New York City, and then I’ll be raising taxes again.’ So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent. Rudy Giuliani
People tend to lie to themselves about their finances – they’ll ignore their credit card bills or ignore certain expenses and won’t even make a budget because they’re afraid of how much they’re spending. Take a step back, take a breather, be honest with yourself and go from there. Carl Nassib
You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue. Henry Samueli
I’ve always considered myself a physical person. I don’t call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses. Eleanor Mondale
Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective. John Sununu
Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare – for we baby boomers in a few years – that everything has to be on the table. Douglas R. Oberhelman
I landed in Mumbai & I started doing acting. I would do acting for 5 days and I would teach Physics & Maths in the remaining two days which would cover my expenses. Jitendra Kumar
We don’t have any kind of sponsors. The players invest themselves. They need money. They need resources… That’s why, in sports and teams, they have sponsors – in soccer, in the NFL. Everyone has sponsors who invest and help to pay daily expenses. Vitor Belfort
We are convinced that universal health coverage, with strong primary care and essential financial protection, is the key to achieving the ambitious health targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to avoiding impoverishment from exorbitant out-of-pocket health expenses. Tedros Adhanom
How can I pay for dental care, doctors, the expenses of my homes or traveling. I have nothing to pay with. Jocelyn Wildenstein
We ought to be incentivizing people to save more of their own money for use taking care of their healthcare expenses, and what we have done is we have set it up where health savings accounts are harder and harder to use for narrower and narrower purposes. Tim Griffin
Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum. Suze Orman
I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate. Don Rickles
There is no denying that auto-bill pay is easier and more convenient than keeping track of and remembering to pay all of your bills each month, so it makes sense to use it for fixed expenses that you have approved and that you’re 100% comfortable with. Alexa Von Tobel
Nobody’s profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere. Brit Hume
I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. George Osborne
You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what’s always going on. Zakk Wylde
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options. Alex Berenson
Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families. Russ Carnahan
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
All companies incur expenses, some of which are fixed and bear no relation to sales volumes. In this way, profits can grow at a faster rate than sales. Li Lu
Our supermarkets sell us horsemeat as beef, our politicians fiddle their expenses, and our bankers risk money that isn’t theirs. So it’s not surprising the public don’t trust anyone or anything. Karren Brady
I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars’ worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars’ worth of expenses. Carly Fiorina
From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people. Mike McGavick
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. Byron Dorgan
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon
It has always been my understanding that all official expenses for the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Dublin have been approved by the State Department. Jean Kennedy Smith
Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner. Jeff Miller
I took business and economics courses. More than anything, I learned the proper steps and the things that need to be outlined. You have to keep your books: how much money you made, how much money you’re spending, what you profited, and what you’re gonna need for expenses. Karen Civil
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. Jim Ramstad
I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great. Charlie Shrem
Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet. Yair Lapid
We don’t need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns. Donella Meadows
For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses. Mark V. Hurd
I’m not going to be putting my expenses on the Internet. I wouldn’t know how. Dennis Skinner
If you can’t live on $140,000 a year, your expenses are too high. Randall Cunningham
If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what’s really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. Sendhil Mullainathan
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin
Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses. Alexa Von Tobel
The first thing they gave me at ‘Sports Illustrated’ was a first-class air card. ‘And oh, by the way, there’s the petty cash drawer,’ they told me. ‘Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.’ Dan Jenkins
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. Ric Keller
My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free. Jenn Proske
We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq – that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people. Arlen Specter
It was extraordinary living in Mumbai, navigating my course, understanding how to manage my finances on my own, mapping out my daily expenses. Dia Mirza
Too many American families go bankrupt from healthcare expenses, and low wage workers have to hold two or three jobs just to make ends meet, which leaves many young children without any hope of having a pre-K education – the most important start to a good education and a path out of poverty. Deb Haaland
People aren’t just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses. Dan Lipinski
You have no control over the market. You can’t predict where it will go, and you can’t bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand – an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses. Jean Chatzky
Rallapalli used to slip in a hundred rupee note into my shirt pocket before I woke up to help me meet my daily expenses. He is a considerate human being and always helped strugglers. Tanikella Bharani
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses. Marie Antoinette
We have to help people with their expenses of their health care, their access to their health care, and certainly for the actual care that they receive. Dan Donovan
There are two things that you need to save for. First, you need an emergency cushion of no fewer than six months of living expenses. This needs to be cash in a liquid account where you can get at it in – yes – an emergency if you need it. In other words, money markets, not CDs. You also need to save for your future: that means retirement. Jean Chatzky
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. Chris Isaak
When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE’s legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state’s history. Kenneth Langone
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don’t seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year. Danny Boyle
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. Thomas Frank
I often turn to friends and family in order to pay my ongoing expenses. Jocelyn Wildenstein
The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS. Kathleen Sebelius
‘Sing It Again Rod’ touches all the solo bases since Stewart’s departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces. Jon Landau
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. Jerome K. Jerome
My father did not live with us. When he came home, he never took off his shoes – he wouldn’t be staying. My father had another family: Although my father had two homes, he paid for our education and household expenses. Mahesh Bhatt
In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. Jules Verne
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors’ annual medical expenses. Jim Gerlach
When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money. Fabrizio Moreira
We had grown too fast at PayPal. Our operating expenses had grown too fast… Growth covers a lot of sin. We want to grow without sin. Dan Schulman
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses. Emily Oster
You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don’t want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don’t want to increase taxes on work. You don’t want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth. Jose Angel Gurria
When you’re setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses – your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one. Jean Chatzky
Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted and proposed in 2009 and 2010 – from healthcare mandates and higher taxes, to carbon cap-and-trade and delay in extending the last decade’s tax reforms. Elaine Chao
I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I’m lucky enough to be in that position. And I’m also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes. David Duval
If we reduced the military expenses in 10 percent of the world, we would have enough money to save millions of lives in this world. Hugo Chavez
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
No one from Charter Cities, can have any financial interest in any project in Honduras; no one can accept consulting fees from the Honduran government; no one can accept reimbursement for travel expenses or accommodations; no one can provide advice to any for-profit entity that wants to invest in Honduras. Paul Romer
I’ve been fortunate to be treated by excellent doctors at world-class hospitals. In the last year alone, my insurance has covered over a million dollars in medical expenses, including a bone marrow transplant and 10 hospitalizations amounting to a combined five months of inpatient care. Suleika Jaouad
I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs. Angelica Ross
What I don’t like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I’ve always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I’ve kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef’s, too – he just hates to shop. Barbi Benton
When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar. Sonam Wangchuk
Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not. Barry Ritholtz
I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake up in the morning, and they have a bottom line. This is how much they make, this is how much their expenses are; they certainly need to break even just to stay in business, and they need to make a profit in order to survive long-term. Marco Rubio
I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side. Robert Walpole
Healthcare expenses often wipe out families. Abhijit Banerjee
Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire. Jack Monroe
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. Wim Wenders
Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for the tyranny of compounding costs can devastate the miracle of compounding returns. John C. Bogle
Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we’re going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil. Tim Scott
And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. Robert Grosseteste
The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it’s far more advanced. Noam Chomsky
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government’s false claims. Kevin Mitnick
It’s very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter – sometimes for an entire family. Rachel Brosnahan
If you have to make a story in 10 rupees or you know that at this stage you can get only 10 rupees then you cut down on your expenses. But when one has made four-five films one likes to broaden the horizons. Pankaj Kapur
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. Sam Walton
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous – he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table. Louise Erdrich
Sequestration will make it extremely challenging – and in many cases impossible – for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk. Pete Gallego
All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn’t a big spender. Ronnie Chan
The expenses of complying with Washington’s torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth. Elaine Chao
