David Lowery Quotes

When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.

My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.

You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.

The thing I love the most about low budget films is the creative freedom.

At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

Personally, I had made a good amount of dough for a 30-year-old guy, but I didn't know a thing about money. I'm not a dumb guy, but I couldn't figure them out.

The world is full of people who want their ears tickled on strategies for wealth creation and protection and so-called revealed secrets to wealth creation. And there are plenty of slick 'business coaches' who are more than willing to do just that - for a fee. This is the world of the seminar guru.

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.