Quotes About Cost Management

#1. We must recognize that "happy" is not a business goal. Service providers pursue "happy." Leaders pursue growth, competitive advantage, mission enhancement, and cost management.

Tina Nunno

#2. As a whole, humanity doesn't lend itself to generalizations. But as I see it, there are two types of people: the comprehensive-vision type and the limited-perspective type. Me, I seem to be the latter. Not that I ever had much problem justifying my limits. A person has to draw lines somewhere.

Haruki Murakami

#3. If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.

Gaelen Foley

#4. The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

Peter Drucker

#5. The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

Harry S. Truman

#6. Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

Eugene Fama

#7. The purpose of logistics management is to plan and coordinate all those activities necessary to achieve desired levels of delivered service and quality at lowest possible cost.

SATISH C. AILAWADI

#8. Great leaders catch and correct problems while they're still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require more time and effort and at a high cost, causing a great deal of disruption and stress.

Beth Ramsay

#9. In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.

Dan Gillmor

#10. A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.

Terry Teachout

#11. Engineering management philosophy: Save money at all cost.

Jack Rohrer

#12. Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

Barry Boehm

#13. I saw Four, Brandon's Garde, poking his head out from behind Brandon's back. He shyly put his hand out for Nine to take, inviting him to walk to pre-combat together. Seeing this, I hoped Nine would take Four's hand. It was a sweet gesture.

Pittacus Lore

#14. I believe one should never invalidate another, even if you don't agree. No one is ever 100% right or 100% wrong. There is always some measure of truth on both sides. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#15. It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

Gerry Geek

#16. One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.

Tulsi Tanti

#17. Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Henry Ford

#18. I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

Guy Pearce

#19. In return for the service and to cover the annual cost for fund management and other expenses, the mutual fund levies fund management charges (FMC). The FMC levied varies across schemes from around 0.75% to 2.50% (the

Vinod Pottayil

#20. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Bill Ackman

#21. Write what you love and love what you write.

Ray Bradbury

#22. Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.

Socrates

#23. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

#24. Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

Elliot Morley

#25. Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.

Tom DeMarco

#26. Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Tony Abbott

#27. Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

Robert K. Merton

#28. It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Pierre Corneille

#29. No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.

Theodore Roosevelt

#30. That difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other;

Lao-Tzu

#31. The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#32. I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.' Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.

Larry Ellison

#33. Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

Connie Willis

#34. Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Alfred De Musset

#35. But what is the theological cost of viewing ministry as management and pastors as professional organizers, albeit in charge of spiritual organizations? What is lost in the switch is the biblical vision of the pastor as a shepherd of a flock of souls. Such

Iain M. Duguid

#36. IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.

Pearl Zhu

#37. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Gary Keller

#38. New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

James Packer

#39. No two days are the same.

Lailah Gifty Akita