Budget Optimization Quotes

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

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.

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

What are we seeking to achieve? We are seeking to optimize budget spending. I believe that even in such uneasy times we employ a very pragmatic approach towards economic and social issues. We do address major social problems and deliver on our promises to our people.

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.