Scott Adams Quotes

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.

Budget drives everything that we do.

I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.

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?

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.'

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

You never have to change a book for 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.

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

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.

Austerity [in the Defense Department] meant that risks had to be managed, not eliminated.

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

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

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

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

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

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.

My buildings are all on budget.

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.