Quotes About Cutting Costs

#1. Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on - and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don't love.

Ramit Sethi

#2. Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?

Robert Reich

#3. As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.

James P. Hoffa

#4. You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

Karl Albrecht

#5. In a time when many people are looking to cut calories, reduce food intake, cut food costs, and lower their bodyweight, bodybuilders are looking to pour it on.

Robert Cheeke

#6. When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.

Raghuram Rajan

#7. Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.

Hillary Clinton

#8. Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

Ingvar Kamprad

#9. Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

Atul Gawande

#10. Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Henry Ford

#11. Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

Brian L. Joiner

#12. The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences.

Rene Guenon

#13. We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Dave Obey

#14. There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Sanjay Kumar

#15. Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

Nick Hanauer

#16. As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

Action Bronson

#17. To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.

Brother Lawrence

#18. But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Wilkie Collins

#19. The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off,

Ross McKitrick

#20. If you want your home to look like a bland furniture showroom, then move into one. Otherwise, decorate in a way that reflects you. (Frank Bielec)

Brian Kramer

#21. The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

Richard D. Wolff

#22. Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.

J.A. Redmerski

#23. Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

Robert Reich

#24. We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.

Scott McNealy

#25. We think that cutting routine office visits to twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, even ten minutes will save money when in fact, with less time for doctors to examine and less time to think, we are incurring far greater costs through excessive testing and needless treatment.

Martin J. Blaser

#26. The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

John Redwood

#27. Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

Noam Chomsky

#28. I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

Robert Hurt

#29. Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

Gordon Brown