Nancy Pelosi Quotes

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

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

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?

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

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.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

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

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

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.

Budget drives everything that we do.

Show me your budget and I’ll describe your strategy.

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.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.