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Quotes About Allocation

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.
~ Michael Chertoff
We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.
~ James T. Walsh
The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.
~ Ronald Coase
The overall policing budget is protected.
~ Theresa May
I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.
~ Nigel Lawson
There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.
~ Paul Gosar
Time is a finite resource.
~ Rumaan Alam
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
~ Thomas Sowell
We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
~ Abraham Robinson
Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.
~ John Paul Getty Jr.
Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.
~ Peter Maurer
The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.
~ Bill Dedman
He also reserved his father's extraordinary powers, which included the right to allocate profits among partners, arbitrate disputes, fire partners, and determine a fired partner's departing share of capital. These were the trump cards in a private partnership.
~ Ron Chernow
Congress could, at any time, limit how the foundation money was spent.
~ Ron Chernow
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
~ Ronald Reagan
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
~ Warren Buffett
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
~ Warren Buffett
When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.
~ Dana Gould
The argument against recursive procedures was always an efficiency argument: non-re-entrant code could be executed so much more efficiently. But with the advent of multiprogramming another need for felxible storage allocation has emerged. And if there are still machines in which the use of recursive routines is punished by too heavy a penalty, then I would venture the opinion that the structure of such a machine should now be called somewhat old-fashioned.
~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted.
~ Anonymous
If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.
~ Eric Maskin
Unless you believe that politicians and agencies are above a money grab, especially if it can be justified under the auspices of a public health emergency, then you should favor prudent, careful allocation of resources with accountability on the front end and follow-up after the fact.
~ Sharyl Attkisson
We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
~ Betsy DeVos
Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.
~ Jason Chaffetz