Financial Model Quotes

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

To protect our independence, we'll never run ads.

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

If the pitch starts with a sob story, I'm out. If the pitch talks about personal issues, I'm out. If the pitch starts off with how big the market opportunity is, I'm out. If the pitch tells me what is unique about the product, how it can make a profit, and it's an area where I have expertise, I will read on.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing.

Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.

My original idea- and I still want to do it -for Pinko Records, would be to create a platform for other artists to do the same thing I did. They could create their own levels of donation and final goal. I have no idea how I would make any money on that -but I don't think like that.

When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.

Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that. With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a lot of training and learning that goes on, which adds to the cost of the model.

I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?

It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.

I think, at the end of the day, Stockhouse will have free services supported by advertising, but we'll also have a number of subscription services.

After operating in three diverse markets, we have determined ShopHouse hasn't demonstrated an attractive unit economic model.

The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.