Joe Torre Quotes

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.

We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

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.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

Profit is one way that you can take pride in the way you publish things and insure that you can go on doing it.

As chefs, a lot of the times we lose sight of the fact that we are in the food business and that it needs to make money to survive.