David Chipperfield Quotes

Making a website is similar to making a movie-hundreds of people work on it, one person makes the final decision, and they make them every minute of the day.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

My buildings are all on budget.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

I am confident that I am capable of leading projects, which are even complex.

I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

I think everyone's going to really try to keep costs down. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. I can protect my filmmakers from any form of creative interference, be it from anywhere, if we're all acting in a responsible way and making the pain of a failure be as little as possible.

I pay what I have to and not a penny more.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.

If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.

The Trump International is way under budget and way ahead of schedule. And we should be able to do that for our country.

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

Small choices add up and each positive choice you make increases confidence and dispels fear.

I find ways to make things affordable. If the kids want the looks, they can be able to go afford it.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."

I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.