Unnecessary Expenditure Quotes

What chiefly governs the military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

We rip out a perfectly good kitchen worth thousands of pounds, only to replace it with another costing roughly the same. The old one has to be disposed of, the new one had to be made. From raw materials, factory processes and transportation the extra effort is substantial. Overcomplication.

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.

Making products for $17 an hour that we could have purchased for 75 cents an hour wastes resources that we could have used elsewhere.

Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.

Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.

There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It's easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.

I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

I even have shoes that don't fit. They're just so cool, I wanted to have them.