Anna Rosenberg Hoffman Quotes

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

If you spend £200million, £300m every year, obviously, even if you make mistakes, you have a good team, but without spending so much money, you can still improve and do well.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

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

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

Economy in government does not mean spending little ... It means spending what you have and spending it well.

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

Budget drives everything that we do.

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

Government spending is not wasteful. The question is, “Is it necessary?”

It is not how much you spend on defense as much as how you spend it.

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

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

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?

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'