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Budgeting Quotes

  • "Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves."
    Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), US industrialist and philanthropist
    Source: Quoted in The Entrepreneurs—An American Adventure (R. Sobel and D. B. Silicia, 1986)
  • "The budget is God."
    Anonymous
    Slogan at Japanese optical company Topcom.
    Source: Quoted in the Economist (London) (January 13, 1996)
  • "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist
    There were twenty shillings in a pound and twelve pence in a shilling.
    Source: David Copperfield (1849–1850), ch. 12
  • "For as long as I can remember the slogan has been … the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!""
    George Will (1941–), US journalist
    On irresponsible borrowing.
    Source: This Week (September 2008)

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