Kevin O'Leary Quotes

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.

Budget drives everything that we do.

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

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

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.

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

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

My buildings are all on budget.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

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

The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.

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

There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's tight, everything's paired down and it's just a question of making it look expensive.

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future.

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.

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.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.