Financial Hurdles Quotes

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.

Motor sport is very expensive. It's unfortunate, because you see so much talent that never makes it to the top due to the lack of financial support.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

Certainly when I was starting, it required being in a community where, when you tried to rent a building, and they looked at your balance sheet and saw it was negative, that didn't scare them away.

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking for a million and a half dollars to do a small film, there can always be hold-ups, because it's a large amount of money for some people, and it's a small amount of money for other people. In any case, it's significant enough to where you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to happen. Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball. And, of course, the reason agents want you to do bigger projects is that they make a bigger cut.