- The page contains money quotes about spending money from various notable figures
- There are over 100 quotes on the page about topics like earning money, saving money, spending money wisely, government spending, and more
- Each quote is attributed to its author and includes an option to share the quote on social media
- The quotes cover a wide range of views from different eras on financial responsibility, character, consumerism, and government fiscal policy
- Many of the quotes emphasize the importance of spending money carefully and investing in others over material goods
- The page acts as a collection of wisdom on money and its impact from different perspectives throughout history
“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money” — Morgan Housel
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“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent” — Marco Rubio
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“I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences” — Miranda Hart
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“In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it” — Peter Singer
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“The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather’s pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather’s net worth. But his spending habits are real” — Chael Sonnen
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“There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it” — E.W. Howe
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“In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend” — Pauline Hanson
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“I think I’m pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don’t have a new car, I drive my old car that I’ve had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago” — Chris O’Donnell
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“I still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars” — Maria Sharapova
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“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious” — William Wordsworth
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“Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria” — Victor Davis Hanson
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“The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to” — Dinah Shore
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“I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed” — Hedy Lamarr
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“There’s something about a holiday that isn’t all about how much money you spend” — Hilarie Burton
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“Producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They’re trying to stop you spending money and you’re trying to not spend money, but at the same time we’re great artists” — Michael Apted
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“Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, it’s gone” — Rod Steiger
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“We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it” — George Farquhar
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“Spending money comes in stages, like going broke” — Ann Robinson
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“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult” — Samuel Johnson
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“My father really couldn’t afford to spend $12 for a guitar for me, but he did. It was like an ordinary family spending $500 for a kid’s gift” — Trini Lopez
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“We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war – spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build” — John Lewis
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“Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it” — Henry David Thoreau
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“People are now staying in the United States, spending their money in the U.S., and I like that. I’ve been after that for a long time. I’ve been saying, ‘let’s stay in the U.S., spend your money here,’ and they’re doing that. They’re sort of enforced doing that” — Donald Trump
“Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending” — John C. Maxwell
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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else” — Sam Walton
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“I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend” — Joan Crawford
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“If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money?” — Michael Bloomberg
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“Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it” — Will Rogers
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“First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?” — Carl Sagan
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“My parents told me I needed to make my own money, it’s time to learn how to save and spend your own money, stuff like that, What I’m trying to say is I did have a platform, but none of my money is inherited” — Kylie Jenner
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“People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don’t understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money” — Patrick Ewing
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“Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it’s a vote for something, so make it count” — Lizzie Borden
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“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order” — Nikola Tesla
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“I like to spend money, on houses – on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It’s just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I’m not stingy” — Gloria Vanderbilt
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“I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze” — Adele
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“I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star. It ‘s nothing new – I used to spend down to the last dime” — Freddie Mercury
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“I think we need to spend more time and money to make good teachers, both men and women. No one has more influence on the young mind except his mother” — Bess Truman
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“For fifty years, I have done nothing else but earn money and spend money; and it became clear that spending money gives me greater pleasure than earning it” — Cosimo de’ Medici
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“I spend money as if I had it” — Mike Todd
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“The person who possesses wealth is not made happy by having it but by spending it, and not spending it haphazardly but in knowing how to spend it well” — Don Quixote
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“Every dollar we spend or invest has impacts, whether they are positive or negative” — Matt Patsky
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Never spend your money before you have earned it” — Thomas Jefferson
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“Just because you have money doesn’t mean you have to spend money” — Devon Kennard
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“Time is a currency you can only spend once” — Ziad K. Abdelnour
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“Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision” — Dick Armey
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“Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul” — Robert J. McCracken
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“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies” — Chuck Grassley
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“I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it” — William Faulkner
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“Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily” — Auliq Ice
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“It is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad” — Bertrand Russell
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“You may not be able to buy love with money, but if you spend your love, you may end up with a lot of money” — Debasish Mridha
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“Defence is a constant preoccupation and a leading item of government expense, and understandably so. But I would submit today that education is one of the most effective forms of defence spending there is” — Kofi Annan
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“In my entire lifetime everything that I spend will be quite a bit less than 1% of everything I make. The other 99%-plus will go to others because it has no utility to me, so it’s silly for me to not transfer that utility to people who can use it. It’s doing me no good” — Warren Buffett
“Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare” — Isaiah 55:2
“If I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income” — Milton Friedman
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“Look, I frankly don’t care about the level of my taxes that much, the reason I’m generally against higher taxes is because I think our government spending is commensurately as inefficient as the tax itself” — Paul Tudor Jones
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“Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation” — Robert A. Heinlein
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“There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea” — Jason Fried
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“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy” — Haruki Murakami
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“I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with” — Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want” — Anna Lappe
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“There will not be a bill until all the lobbying money is spent” — Rod Wright
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“Don’t save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving” — Warren Buffett
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“That most delicious of all privileges – spending other people’s money” — John Randolph
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“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt” — Daniel Hannan
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“We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him” — Marian Wright Edelman
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“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely” — Thomas Huxley
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“Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character” — Gary Ryan Blair
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“Sincerity: willingness to spend one’s own money” — Mason Cooley
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“A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money” — Carter Glass
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“And the more you spend in blessing, The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart’s possessing Returns to make you glad” — John Greenleaf Whittier
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“It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending” — Eric Cantor
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“Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away”– Sara Blakely
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“All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool” — Rudyard Kipling
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“Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels” — Roswell D. Hitchcock
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“I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar” — Robert G. Ingersoll
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“Great spenders are bad lenders” — Benjamin Franklin
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“The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile” — Woodrow Wilson
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“A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character – how he makes it and how he spends it” — James Moffatt
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“The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it” — John Stott
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“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need” — Will Rogers
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“Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year” — P.J. O’Rourke
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“When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security” — Stuart Wilde
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“The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for” — Bill Bonner
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“Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision” — Aristotle
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“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich” — Sarah Bernhardt
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“Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world’s uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” — Thomas Jefferson
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“The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good” — Donatella Versace
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“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans” — Ron Paul
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“And I think the more money you put in people’s hands, the more they will spend. And if they don’t spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that” — Michael Bloomberg
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“I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway” — Ariana Grande
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“Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation” — Zig Ziglar
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“A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil” — Vanna Bonta
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“I’m going to be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender” — Jackson Browne
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“Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?” — Rupert Murdoch
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“None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy” — Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
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“The big picture is that we’re a debtor nation but remain the most profligate spenders” — Howard Davidowitz
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“Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?” — Shakespeare
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