P. Chidambaram Quotes

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

My buildings are all on budget.

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.

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

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

It’s better to spend the money we have now more wisely than to spend a lot more money after the fact on the dysfunction we’ve created.

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

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

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.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

Budget drives everything that we do.

The next president is going to be faced with the prospect of realigning our national security interests with our resources—–and for God's sake, getting some certainty into the budget process so we can actually plan.... Instead, we tend to look at things one year at a time.

I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt.

I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

It's one thing to get the money apportioned in the budget; the other is to utilise it completely.

A budget is a moral document of a nation’s priorities.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom.

The necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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

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

We are putting so much money into retirement benefits that there is little money left for other state services

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.