Spending Patterns Quotes

Money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Spending is an addiction.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.

If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.

I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Everyone wants new things all the time; shops require so much - there has to be consistency.

I love shopping. I don't go on crazy 'I'm going shopping' sprees; I shop as I go along.

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.