Best 30 quotes in «budgeting quotes» category

A 3% budget increase is a timid goal in a business environment where timidity/ irresoluteness loses

Budgets were originally designed as control mechanisms. As such they are traps …

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.

Budgeting is not just for people who do not have enough money. It is for everyone who wants to ensure that their money is enough.

Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock and they say "the kitchen is closed." For years I would hear this, and think, "damn, just a little too late, oh well, thank you, I guess it's Denny's again." And then one day it hit me: kitchens don't close. Just as at home, at a certain point in the night, I stop using the kitchen--but at three in the morning, if I want to, I still have the ability to go downstairs and "re-open" the kitchen by turning on the stove and opening the refrigerator! Restaurants are not banks; at the stroke of ten an enormous airlock doesn't seal off the kitchen and render the preparation of food an utter impossibility./ No, kitchens can open and budgets are what certain people say they are.

Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.

Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

If she’d kept up her AAA membership, she would have called them, but after the divorce, she’d had to cut some things out. Roadside assistance was one of them. Aargh.

It is difficult to create a budget for life when we all cash out the same. Corpses have no currency." -The Years Before My Suicide

It is in times of financial hardship that families must by necessity come closer together and reaffirm their love more frequently. Stress and hardship can destroy a family.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

Overspending while trying to raise one’s status is a condition of economic materialism which hurts people financially, because it usually results in unnecessary debt. One does not raise social strata by buying things but instead by acquiring enough wealth to qualify for the next category of wealth.

The simplest definition of a budget is "telling your money where to go.

Remember that family is not just feeling that people have towards each other but a series of duties and responsibilities that must be fulfilled.

Sardines or not sardines, that is the question.

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

Why people take drugs baffles me to no end. Especially when they can't afford them.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness.

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place; so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing out deals to specific groups. Coolidge fixed a problem like that. He came into a rough time and he, and Harding before him, fixed that by budgeting.

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

That’s why you call it a budget.  You set it and you don’t budge.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.