Colleen Atwood Quotes

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.

A behemoth budget does not mean there is much discretion in allocating it.

Budget drives everything that we do.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

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

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

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.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

A budget in difficult times can and must serve the people for whom it is designed.

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

I don't spend unnecessarily. The problem with the industry is we don't budget our films. Plus, we spend bizarre amounts on marketing. If you have a good film and a good trailer, you don't need to spend so much.

I always cooperate to complete a film within the budget. Not a single film of mine has overshot its budget.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.