Christine Gregoire Quotes

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

You can't compromise to keep the film in 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?

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

Budget drives everything that we do.

I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.

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

I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show with nine expensive actors in it. It was very nice that they were even interested in doing that. But, I was so proud of what we'd done that I couldn't think of a compelling reason to do a lesser version of it.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

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.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

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

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

You never have to change a book for budget.

My buildings are all on budget.

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.