Scott McGillivray Quotes

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.

You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

I make sure I keep everything tight, checking on my bills. Going to restaurants, I make sure if I have a coupon, I use it. I try to live like I'm a normal person.

The pitch that works best in tough economic times is, 'I can do that for less.'

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.

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.

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

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

I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.

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

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

A good budget is an oxymoron.

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.

Budget drives everything that we do.

If we want to be cost-conscious, we should do it, not just talk about how cost-conscious we are.