David Droga Quotes

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

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

The necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

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

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

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

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.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

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.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

It’s better to spend the money we have now more wisely than to spend a lot more money after the fact on the dysfunction we’ve created.

Budgets are not bottomless pits.

You only decide once how to dedicate the surplus.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.