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You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

- Satyajit Ray

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

- Niki Lauda

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

- Charles Dickens

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

- Andrew Johnson

The decline seemed to kick in around the time of publication of data on machinery orders which is a key indicator of capital expenditure. It was well below forecast, down 12.5 percent on the month.

- Russell Jones

Government spending in the year to September increased by a thousand percent. When you spend a thousand percent, you will likely get the same amount in inflation. The real economy in this country shrunk even by the government`s own admission by 45 percent in the last five years. That means, government should have shrunk by 45 percent. Government has not shrunk by 45 percent. The formal economy is producing much less tax revenue, in order for it to pay its civil servants. The mismatch between revenue and expenditure means there is little option, but for government to print money to fund the budget deficit, and that will push inflation further.

- John Richards

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

- Anthony Eden

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Anytime there is an expenditure of large amounts of money people get nervous. There are times they would like more options and possibly better service and I think a lot of those things could be brought about with our own utility, ... But, anytime they see the city spending money they think it will cost them in the long run.

- Jeff Palmer

Medical care at community health centers is approximately $250 less than the average annual expenditure for office-based doctor visits.

- Tim Murphy

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

- Amy Uriell

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

- Andrew Schepers

The current, rather mild U.S. recovery has been driven by asset appreciation/consumption and not employment or capex (capital expenditure) growth. Future growth is dependent on additional asset appreciation in real estate and stocks if Asia continues to absorb much of our investment and many of our jobs.

- Anne Lang

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

- Anthony Bozzella

Especially at this time when it`s obvious that government has certain expenditure needs in the wake of two hurricanes and we don`t know what else.

- Antiphanes

You`ll get name recognition. The proceedings will no doubt be on C-SPAN. That doesn`t strike me as being a foolish expenditure of money.

- Barbara Keshen

We`re really firm in our desire to keep the National the tremendous value it`s always been a full season will cost a competitor well under $40,000. With a cash season-end prize fund, a driver`s net expenditure can be even less than that.

- Barbara Upton

We didn`t actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

- Frank A. Clark