Ethan Coen Quotes

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

I want to give producers more financial security.

Not having a country with a financial crisis in the year is a pretty big deal to me. But something that didn’t happen is not something that people will focus on.

That a man should, but a few months since, confine himself from his creditors, and now on this occasion be able to advance half a million, is so extraordinary that it ceases to be a mystery. Everything he says, writes or does, is in reality the action of the ministry.

There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.

You can't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.

If I get a lucky win, it is difficult to sustain that over time, so we have to maintain a style.

We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.

I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.

We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.

It is important for Oncor to remain financially strong.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.

Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.