Felix Dennis Quotes

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

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

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

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.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

Budget drives everything that we do.

If you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business.

I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.

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

The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.

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

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

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.

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