Quotes about Expenses

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. Votes: 5

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Votes: 4

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases. Votes: 3

The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions. Votes: 3

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses. Votes: 2

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. Votes: 2

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. Votes: 2

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. Votes: 2

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Votes: 2

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. Votes: 2

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Votes: 2

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. Votes: 2

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses. Votes: 2

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. Votes: 2

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Votes: 2

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Votes: 2

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. Votes: 2

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Votes: 2

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum. Votes: 2

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Votes: 2

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. Votes: 2

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Votes: 2

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. Votes: 2

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. Votes: 2

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. Votes: 2

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Votes: 2

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community. Votes: 2

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. Votes: 2

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact. Votes: 2

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards. Votes: 2

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. Votes: 2

The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses. Votes: 0

Our expenses are all for conformity. Votes: 0

Even though work stops, expenses run on. Votes: 0

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses. Votes: 0

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest Votes: 0

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. Votes: 0

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. Votes: 0

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses Votes: 0

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. Votes: 0

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses Votes: 0

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. Votes: 0

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. Votes: 0

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education. Votes: 0

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever. Votes: 0

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." Votes: 0

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses. Votes: 0

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work. Votes: 0

It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make. Votes: 0

Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses. Votes: 0

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses. Votes: 0

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness. Votes: 0

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses. Votes: 0

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid. Votes: 0

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses. Votes: 0

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses. Votes: 0

As a student, I don't have a lot of expenses. I buy food. I play a sport. But that's about it. Votes: 0

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. Votes: 0

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. Votes: 0

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams. Votes: 0

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. Votes: 0

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it. Votes: 0

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships. Votes: 0

Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception. Votes: 0

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income. Votes: 0

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate. Votes: 0

The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses. Votes: 0

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision. Votes: 0

Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential candidate, is going to fight Evander Holyfield for charity. I hope they save some of that money for funeral expenses. Votes: 0

I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did? Votes: 0

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary. Votes: 0

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive. Votes: 0

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes. Votes: 0

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers. Votes: 0

In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs. Votes: 0

For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures Votes: 0

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. Votes: 0

Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron. Votes: 0

When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one. Votes: 0

According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they deserve, but $6 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan alone. Votes: 0

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. Votes: 0

Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything. Votes: 0

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. Votes: 0

Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening. Votes: 0

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. Votes: 0