Franklin P. Jones Quotes

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

One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

I mean, money is a tool.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes.

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.