Guy Laliberte Quotes

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.

I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

Content begets content.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

Pay-per-view is bit of a gamble.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

The fact is, there's no single magic number that defines profitability for a game.

I chose to invest everything in my own private companies.

I've built my business around the No. 7.

Understand that VCs are simply a sophisticated form of financial investors who, in turn, need to satisfy their own investors.

It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars - like really had the ability to do that.

When I first saw my line in stores, that's when it really hit me that there was a consumer on the other end of it all, and they were going to have to spend their own money on it. So there was that initial panic. I remember thinking, what if nobody buys it?

I believe that at some point we should come up with a business model that would make us sustainable.

There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.