Top 25 Expenses Quotes of 83

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

John Lydon

Want, What You Want, Expenses

"This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

Anandamayi Ma

Earth, Buried, Expenses

The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

Phil Crosby

Quality, Cost, Expenses

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Jean de La Fontaine

Flattery, Expenses, Flatterer

"The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

Dick Cheney

President, Expenses

"Iraq crisis: Rarely has a US president been so wrong about so much" by Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2014.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Arne Duncan

Austerity, Expenses

"Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Sam Walton

Competition, Advantage, Expenses

Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.317, Bantam

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Voltaire

Atheism, Clergymen, Expenses

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Theophrastus

Time, Waste, Expenses

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

Murray Rothbard

Affluence, States, Expenses

Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.209, Ludwig von Mises Institute

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

John Wilmot

Interest In Life, Expenses, Libertine

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Human Nature, Expenses, Flatterer

"The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Frederic Bastiat

Expenses, Tempting

You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Insecurity, Expenses, Security

"Don’t abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal, embrace it to build regional peace" by Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2017.

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.

Sam Walton

Should, Expenses, Percent

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

Alexa Von Tobel

Differences, Expenses, Knows

"What To Expect (Financially) When You’re Expecting" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make.

Robert Kiyosaki

Expenses

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Henry Ward Beecher

Others Happiness, Selfishness, Expenses

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.243

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

Milton Friedman

Expenses, Persons

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Bill Gross

Return, Equity, Expenses

"In His Best Letter In A Long Time, Bill Gross Explains Why Stocks Are Going To Be Horrible Investments" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. July 31, 2012.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Alan King

Thinking, Expenses, Ifs

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hands, Hats, Expenses