Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Will Rogers

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
Colin Powell

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Colin Powell

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
Joan Crawford