Budgeting Challenges Quotes

We can’t even project [budget surpluses and deficits] accurately month-to-month, much less for an entire year.

I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn't the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

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.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Budgeting is inherently complex.

They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million to make the film." There was no way to make the thing for $2 million, so I made it for $5 million. And then, it turned out there was no way to make the thing for $5 million. That's when it got weird.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

A good budget is an oxymoron.