William Frenzel Quotes

I never go overbudget on my movies.

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

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.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

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.'

Deficits aren't always bad if you invest the money.

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.

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

The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate - you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer - the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

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

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

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

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.

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?

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

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.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them.