David Talbot Quotes

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

We don't put a dollar toward marketing or advertising. I think we're more efficient than Facebook.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

You may think my business is to make appropriations, but it is not. It is to prevent their being made.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.