Famous Quotes & Sayings

Making decisions all the time leaves less time to reflect. At the time I'm knee-deep in budgets, so today I just walked . . . through classrooms. I see the faces of the kids to clear my head. It helps them to be visible to me.

Many companies are very conscious about budgets today. So the $35 to $100 price points are very popular with corporate accounts.

(Music) is one of the things that always gets cut when schools face (financial) difficulties. When I was in school, we had instruments and uniforms and we had great budgets and we took trips and now it's wham! Everything is gone.

More than anything else, this one program threatens the long-term federal budget.

Frankly, the September decline was somewhat surprising, considering that the last four months of the year historically have been the heaviest, as employers finalize budgets and business plans for the coming year,

For smaller businesses, their budgets are often so tight that they're really fretful about putting money into prevention because they're not sure it's a tangible investment for them.

For schools and other government buildings, it is essentially important in times of tight budgets and high fuel prices to focus on energy savings.

Fuel costs are still a small part of vacation budgets. For most people, that's not a deal breaker.

If we didn't want more, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I would simply say, yes, fund our budget.

We probably won't see the marketing budgets of the late 1990s in quite the same way again, but the slowly recovering economy has made many clients think more about the value of their public relations as part of the marketing mix.

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

We're living in a super price-sensitive and competitive market. Companies are totally preoccupied with short-term survival. With that kind of mentality, you shouldn't be surprised that energy research budgets have been on the skids for years.

We have to work hard to help them. Their budgets were significantly impacted.

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget.

This was not a high-budget enterprise that I could see. Other people come to Hope to shoot commercials and such, and they throw money around right and left.

Callie Khouri

There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

Louise Slaughter

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

Jack Mitchell

We're at 83 percent of our budget. I'm sure we'll run over.

When household budgets tighten up women continue to buy for themselves. It's happening now.

Franklin Raines

We think that it's unwise to put into the constitution a mechanism that enshrines for all time a particular way of measuring the budget.

When they pay us back, it will all be put back in the budgets like it came out,

We can do this with monies out of our public works budget.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Budgets are doomed to fail because people cut out all of the fun in their life. People need to have leeway.

He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.

Nobody would have wished or known that the recession was going to be so bad, that budgets would be so bad. But that doesn't change the fact that we have these standards.

Given the scope, the magnitude and disruption, it went extremely smoothly. It came in on schedule and on budget.

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,

Colleen Atwood

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

Allyson Schwartz

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

W. S. Gilbert

Volunteer fire departments operate on very limited budgets. We wanted to help these local heroes and decided to donate some of our equipment. We are also involved with local ministry programs, donating washers and dryers to help the homeless and unfortunate.