Cost Cutting Quotes

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Human labor is becoming the cheapest of commodities.

I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.

How does a government reduce expenditures? To be absolutely flat about it, 99 per cent of it is accomplished by putting people out of work. Now that is a tough way to say it, but it is a fact.

NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

The day healthcare can fully embrace AI is the day we have a revolution in terms of cutting costs and improving care.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.

Lyft Line is our biggest step in bringing down prices... We've been thinking about this ever since we launched Lyft. We always intended to do it.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

If I can afford a $1,000 apartment, I'm going to try to find a $600 apartment and save the $400 towards something I want to invest in.

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.