Financial Recklessness Quotes

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale

Money without brains is always dangerous.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner of later it adds up to real money.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

After 'X Factor,' I got loads of gigs. Then I went on holiday just after the tour and bought my Rolex in Tenerife. I needed to go through that phase - splurge and see that it's worthless - to get it out of my system.

In two years, I spent all my money on cars, watches, boots, discos, restaurants, and friends who, in reality, were not friends at all. For a boy like me, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and without money, it was dangerous.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.