Eric Fellner Quotes

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.

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?

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.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

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.

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.

You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner of later it adds up to real money.

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

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

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

Budget drives everything that we do.

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

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.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

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

I always cooperate to complete a film within the budget. Not a single film of mine has overshot its budget.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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.

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

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

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

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