Amy Bloom Quotes

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.

I could see it wasn't going to be easy. I couldn't give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be.

Ray Kroc called his first McDonald's restaurant, which he opened in Illinois, 'a little money machine.' That's why thousands of franchisees bought it.

A franchise gives a sense of security to everyone - the director, producers, exhibitors, and even the audience feels that they are watching something close to the first part.

Franchising implies a financial arrangement, and I am always pleased to consider those.

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

How can you franchise hospitality?

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it.

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

We offer an extremely controlled, disciplined, and completely systematic franchise package.

When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000.

We never realized how much money there was to be found in character products.

If you have sold the film rights to somebody, take your money and leave. If the producers need you, they will call you. But you have to be careful about who you are selling your book to, and ensure that it is not tampered with.

We can license our intellectual property to new customers and expand agreements with existing ones over time and more.

Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiring startups that are searching for a business model. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies that are executing.