Randy Pausch Quotes

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

I dont consider the bloody ROI.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

After a careful examination I concluded that the story would not only repay the cost of publication in book form, but would yield some profit. Possibly I was helped to that conclusion by my firm conviction that the volume would prove a strong anti-slavery document.

Without development there is no profit, without profit no development.

We want Boeing to make a lot of money but not that much money.

Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.

I like things with upside. That's how you make money.

Never argue with a profit.

Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

People will invest in you only if they see some kind of return, and that's the dark truth.

At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.

Bigger risk equals bigger reward.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.