Steven Sinofsky Quotes

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?

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

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

You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

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

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

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

[The] up-and-down pattern of [defense] spending over the last 18 years averages out to below zero percent real growth. In other words, if defense spending had followed a path of zero percent real growth, the U.S. probably could have obtained more defense for its dollar.

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

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

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

Budget issues consume bureaucrats because an adequate budget which is generally defined as an increase over the previous … year, is a reflection of the operational capacity, current health, importance, and future prospects of an organization.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

Money is not all in life, and not in football, but it's quite important, and to have the lowest budget in the league means to finish in the top 10 may be an even bigger result.

When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise.

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

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.