Expense

An expense or expenditure is an outflow of money

Quotes

 * ... investors must never forget that their expenses are Wall Street’s income.
 * Warren Buffett,


 * I worship freedom; I abhor restraint, trouble, dependence. As long as the money in my purse lasts, it assures my independence; it relieves me of the trouble of finding expedients to replenish it, a necessity which has always inspired me with dread; but the fear of seeing it exhausted makes me hoard it carefully. The money which a man possesses is the instrument of freedom.; that which we eagerly pursue is the instrument of slavery. Therefore I hold fast to that which I have, and desire nothing.
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (Wordsworth: 1996), p. 35.


 * The question is not put how far extends
 * His piety, but what he yearly spends;
 * Quick, to the business; how he lives and eats;
 * How largely gives; how splendidly he treats;
 * How many thousand acres feed his sheep;
 * What are his rents; what servants does he keep?
 * The account is soon cast up; the judges rate
 * Our credit in the court by our estate.
 * Juvenal, Satire III, J. Dryden, trans.