46 Outlay Quotes
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. — Edmund Burke
Write down everything you spend. The waste in your daily spending should soon become apparent. — Edward O. Thorp
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting. — Arthur Laffer
Little is spent with difficulty, much with ease. — Thai Proverbs
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. — Samuel Johnson
Spend lavishly and you end up with nothing. — Filipino Proverbs
The most we spent was probably $1.2 million. — MrBeast
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. — Thomas Jefferson
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin
Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand. — Japanese Proverbs
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. — Samuel Johnson
We need to stop spending money we don't have. — Paul Ryan
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. — Tryon Edwards
The price of success must be paid in full, in advance. — Brian Tracy
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money. — P. J. O'Rourke
Short Outlay Quotes
- Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. — Dick Thornburgh
- The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues. — William Vickrey
- Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment. — Arnold Bennett
- To make any gain some outlay is necessary. — Plautus
- The least outlay is not always the greatest gain. — Aesop
- Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost — Walt Mossberg
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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price. — Charles Buxton
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody. — Bruno Schulz
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. — Wilfred Owen
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. — Sun Tzu
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. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors. — Walter Karp
Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum? — John F. Kennedy
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — E. M. Bounds
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.] — Plautus
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters. — Walter Bagehot
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. — Ambrose Bierce
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — Edward McKendree Bounds
I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes. — P. T. Barnum
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life. — William Vickrey
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. — Francois Quesnay
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists. — John Kenneth Galbraith
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