Antoine Fuqua Quotes

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

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

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

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

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

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.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

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.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

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

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.