Budgets, Budgeting Quotes

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

As a community we have been living beyond our means…. We have been living at a rate which is simply not justified by the amounts of goods and services we are producing.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Americans know that war must be paid for and it is they who must pay for it.

One generation plants the trees. Another gets the shade.

I have never had personal debt and never will.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.

It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.

Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.

I do not pretend to step out of my own sphere and to control the internal management of other departments, but it seems to me that as Secretary of the Treasury, I may ask, that, while peace continues, the aggregate of the expenditure of those departments be kept within bounds such as will preserve the equilibrium between the national revenue and expenditure without recurrence to loans.

Let us have the courage to stop borrowing to meet continuing deficits. Revenues must cover expenditures by one means or another. Any government, like any family, can, for a year, spend a little more than it earns. But you know and I know that a continuation of the habit means the poor house.

The banks have discontinued themselves. We are now without any medium … necessity, as well as patriotism and confidence will make us all eager to receive Treasury notes if founded on specific taxes. Congress may now borrow of the public, and without interest, all the money they may want … by merely issuing their own promissory notes ….

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

The best thing to hold down spending is to have a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

Whatever the cost of our libraries is, it is cheap compared to the cost of an ignorant nation.