Satyajit Ray Quotes

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

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

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

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?

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

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.

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. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

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.

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

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

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

Budgeting is inherently complex.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

In football, you can do well even without spending huge amounts.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.

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

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

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

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.