Financial Constraints Quotes

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year ... wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Being sporty at heart, I've wanted to learn football since I was a child. But I never got the chance because, growing up, my family didn't have the finances for extra-curricular activities.

There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

I'm poor, not homeless.

As Secretary of Defense my job would be much easier if I didn't have to put up with [budget] cuts.

Life is short and so is money.

Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

We just don’t have enough money to be trying to create nations.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

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

There are a number of things that sound good, but frankly, we just can't afford them. And Obamacare doesn't sound good and it's not affordable.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.