Yoshio Taniguchi Quotes

My buildings are all on budget.

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

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

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

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 really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

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.

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.

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

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.

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.

A behemoth budget does not mean there is much discretion in allocating it.

Budget drives everything that we do.

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

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.

I don't spend unnecessarily. The problem with the industry is we don't budget our films. Plus, we spend bizarre amounts on marketing. If you have a good film and a good trailer, you don't need to spend so much.

You don't try to have the very lowest cost of an asset. You try to have the right asset. So rather than thinking about the lowest cost, the question is how do you get the best productivity.

Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.

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.