Sam Graves Quotes

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.'

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.

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

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

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

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

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

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

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Authorizers do a big dog and pony show, but when it comes to the top line, we have open warfare about what the top line will be …

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

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

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

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

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?

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

The economy of film forces you to make choices.