Financial Investment Quotes

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Steam and the telegraph and other machinery have required capital greater than any individual can furnish.

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

We welcome the interest from PE firms, as we see it as a sign of our progress, and my position is that we should always open the doors to those who want to bring capital to our industry.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

Educating children and their parents on the universal messages of free enterprise and self-determination takes money. So does grooming political talent within the community and training and hiring Latino surrogates to bring the message to Spanish- and English-speaking media.

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

We've spent more than 200 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to protect the Liverpool Plains.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

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.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

Money has never won anything. You can spend as much as you want, but you must build a team first.

The cost of the vaccine is truly minuscule when you think about the benefits you're getting from an opportunity-cost standpoint. If you're going to miss several days of work - and you will - with high fevers, body aches, nausea, and vomiting... you're going to be losing out on a lot more money and productivity if you don't get the flu shot.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

Since Abramovich took over, look at how many trophies Chelsea have won.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

I want to make sensible commercial films.