Kevin McCarthy Quotes

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

Show me your budget and I’ll describe your strategy.

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

Budget drives everything that we do.

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.

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.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.

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

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.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

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

My buildings are all on budget.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

I've been really fortunate in my career to do budgets at all different levels.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.