Expense Control Quotes

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

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

It's important to learn to say no. With tours and all of that stuff, there are so many aspects that go into it, it's easy to have so many people around you saying, 'Oh yes, yes, you can afford this, you can afford this,' and then all of the sudden you've spent $20 million on your stage, and you're like, 'Where's my money?'

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

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.

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Financial peace of mind is not determined by how much we make, but is dependent upon how much we spend!

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

Stop spending money you don't have.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.

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

I pay what I have to and not a penny more.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

This will be one of my most important elements. When I talk cost cutting, I do for so many different departments where the money is pouring and they don't even know what to do with it. But when it comes to the military we have to enhance our military. It's depleted. That's the word I tend to use.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.