Financial Decisions Quotes

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called ‘censorship.’ If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship, as individuals choose whether to buy apples instead of oranges, vacations rather than violins, furniture rather than mutual funds. But of course no such consistency is intended. This strained use of the word ‘censorship’ appears only selectively, to describe public choices and values at variance with the choices and values of the anointed.

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

I wouldn't finance a fad if I were a banker.

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to be that big. That money went largely to the cast. They were great, but I don't think that money needed to be spent.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.