Spend Quotes

"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax."
-Abraham Lincoln

"If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
-Henry Ford

"No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot."
-Scott Adams

"Never spend your money before you have it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot."
-Scott Adams

"I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?"
-Matt Groening

"Spend and be spent."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
-Steve Jobs

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
-Ronald Reagan

"Before you speak, listen.Before you write, think.Before you spend, earn.Before you invest, investigate.Before you criticize, wait.Before you pray, forgive.Before you quit, try.Before you retire, save.Before you die, give."
-William Arthur Ward

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
-Charles F. Kettering

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life."
-George F. Burns

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."
-George F. Burns

"Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground."
-Ralph Marston

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
-Germaine Greer

"It's an off budget year, so there is not as much going on in that regard. However, there may be a desire to spend some of the higher revenues that are coming in. It will be interesting to see if Republicans and Democrats can restrain themselves when it comes to spending."
-Andrew Smith

"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
-Maurice Maeterlinck

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
-Christopher Morley

"I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it."
-Clifford Stoll

"If the board isn't keeping the association informed and making decisions that are proper for the association, then a management company can't make those decisions or set the agenda or force them to spend money on things that need to be done."
-James Strichartz

"The players and coaches spend so much time and effort, you just want them to get it right. Regardless of whether you're on the good end of it or not. It could be a handful of plays during the season that can determine a championship."
-John Bond

"They will also spend some time talking about the social issues."
-Daniel Park

"[Whether you're planning a wedding or another big party,] you need to make a conscious choice about whether it's more important to you to spend tens of thousands on the event or save the money for some future financial need, ... There isn't necessarily a right or wrong answer, but the decision ought to be intentional."
-Ross Levin

"There's a lot of expectation. And there has also been a tremendous amount of skepticism. When you spend 15 years talking about something and producing report after report, but never actually turn dirt and launch rockets, then people naturally get skeptical."
-Rick Homans