Jonathan Tropper Quotes

My buildings are all on budget.

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

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?

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.'

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

Under no circumstances will I allow expenditures upon works not clearly national.

Budget drives everything that we do.

If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

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

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.

If I can afford a $1,000 apartment, I'm going to try to find a $600 apartment and save the $400 towards something I want to invest in.

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

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

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

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

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.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.