I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others. — Maimonides
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels. — George H. W. Bush
Write down everything you spend. The waste in your daily spending should soon become apparent. — Edward O. Thorp
We need to stop spending money we don't have. — Paul Ryan
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. — Gary Johnson
You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground. — Garrett Camp
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back. — Sayings
More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility. — Rishi Sunak
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting. — Arthur Laffer
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing. — Janet Yellen
Once you’ve figured out how much start-up capital you need, double it. — Cliff Lerner
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. — John F. Kennedy
Short Business Budget Quotes
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. — Herbert Hoover
You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less. — John Hope Bryant
Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin. — Angela Merkel
Money is a vehicle to do bigger videos and make better content. — MrBeast
You must learn to save first and spend afterwards. — H. John Poole
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Budgeting Quotes
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME! — Rand Paul
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance. — Ben E. King
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter. — Stephen Cambone
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. — Faye Dunaway
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. — Russ Feingold
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government. — William Vickrey
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. — Robert. L. Ehrlich
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. — Cliff Stearns
Budget Quotes
Investing is not about being right all the time; it is about being patient and disciplined. — Gautam Baid
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. — Matthew Vaughn
Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories. — Nicola Sturgeon
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don’t stay broke. — Isaac Mashman
Once you have a plan, always invest within the boundaries and parameters of your plan. Never bend your rules to accommodate your guts. — Naved Abdali
It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t. — Paul Krugman
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
My primary platform is to cut the costs on the military. Again, what we were told was a peace dividend after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We were going to cut our military budget from about $600 billion a year to $200 billion a year. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Investing, like economics, is more art than science. And that means it can get a little messy. — Howard S. Marks
How you define your schedule depends on how you keep focused… — Christina Koch
One of the most common mistakes people make is massively underestimating the amount of money they need to start a business and get traction. — Cliff Lerner
Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. — Steve Jobs
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — John Harvey-Jones
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan. — Les Brown
You have to look at your business ideas and your plans, and find a way to remove your need for money to attempt the plan. — Andrew Tate
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region. — Roger Wicker
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy — Charles R. Swindoll
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. — William Arthur Ward
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. — Thomas A. Edison
Government Budget Quotes
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident. — Ronald Reagan
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences. — Henry Hazlitt
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. — Thomas Jefferson
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. — Thomas Sowell
Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government. — Liz Truss
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. — Jose Ramos-Horta
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith. — Alexander Hamilton
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates. — George Soros
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. — Jim Cooper
Business Marketing Quotes
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master. — Philip Kotler
Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business. — Lewis Howes
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. — Anita Brookner
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
More people would learn from their mistakes if they were not so busy denying them.
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. — Larry Fink
A similar wisdom can be applied to market quotations. Once we understand that they can often be mirages, we can transcend them and come to see stocks simply as shares of businesses…which in the end is the one and only reality. — Francois Rochon
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
Business Management Quotes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations. — Chris Voss
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
What’s kept me intrigued is that it is one of the few jobs where everyday you can study something new. You are constantly learning about new businesses, new situations, new management teams, new issues. So it’s infinitely challenging. — Bill Ackman
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years. — Donna Mills
My biggest regret in business is not starting sooner. It took 4 years to build my first website, but the day I actually started to build my website it only took me 10 hours. — Alex Hormozi
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. — Joseph E. Levine
I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class. — Carly Fiorina
Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. — Robert Townsend
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for. — Danica McKellar
It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable. — Ralph Nader
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas. — Brenda Ueland
America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there. — John Paul DeJoria
There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. " — Bob Hope
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. — Edward Norton
It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun. — Matt Stone
I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I'm the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a state that was on the brink of dying. And we turned it all around with jobs and balanced budgets and rising credit and tax cuts, and the state is unified, and people have hope again in Ohio. — John Kasich
For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!" — George Will
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. — Johnny Hart
We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it. — Liam Hemsworth
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge. — Jeanne Kohl-Welles
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. — Margaret J. Wheatley
I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business. I went into the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance, and made a success there. I had the chance to be governor of a state. Four years in a row, Democrats and Republicans came together to balance the budget. We cut taxes 19 times and balanced our budget. — Mitt Romney
We can't expect entrepreneurs and businesses large and small to take their life savings or their company's money and invest in America if they think we're headed to the road to Greece. And that's where we're going right now unless we finally get off this spending and borrowing binge. And I'll get us on track to a balanced budget. — Mitt Romney
Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production. — Werner Herzog
I relate to what Gov. Romney brings. I know what it means to balance a budget. I know what it means to write a paycheck and not only cash one. I know what it means to create a job, and I know what it means to struggle with my business every day in terms of keeping our doors open any day but definitely in a difficult economy. — Sher Valenzuela
The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises. — Thomas Ian Nicholas
This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy. — Solomon Ortiz
I often get questioned about how we came up with the name Weebly. We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up. — David Rusenko
A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. — David Sarnoff
I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible. — Tom Shadyac
Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined. — Corinne Maier
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. — Stuart Symington
Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits. — Malcolm Rifkind
I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy. — Prabal Gurung
I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business. — Mitt Romney
At the enterprise level, businesses have the talent and budget to create and enforce policies that prevent staffers from installing things themselves. — Jeff Duntemann
...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'" — Paul Newman
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. — Frank Howard Clark
The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget. — Jeffrey Nielsen
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance. — John F. Kennedy
With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success. — Joe Staton
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. — Fred Wilson
The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that. — Marjane Satrapi
Most businesses set goals and targets, but few consider having an upper bound to them. — Paul Jarvis
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of business budget quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about business budget to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of business budget quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
