Martin Fleischmann Quotes

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

Let me get my money's worth if I'm going to get some techs.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money.

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

Money would be no object when compared with the value of the acquisition.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Spending a few hundred million dollars more a year on evaluations could save tens of billions of dollars by teaching us which programs work and generating lessons to improve programs that don’t

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.