James A. Garfield Quotes

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

I realized that I should give serious attention to financial recovery … For ever since I took command of my affairs I had daily uncovered new evidence of … wastefulness.

Some folks can have all the money in the world, and still not know what to do with it.

I studied finance and was a topper.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

People understand that they can spend their money better than the government can.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

How many people out there really set a budget?

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

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

You only decide once how to dedicate the surplus.

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.

Budgeting is inherently complex.

Show me your budget and I’ll describe your strategy.

China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.