Break Even Quotes

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Gambling

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

  Mike Caro

  Average, Law, Break

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• You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the business and what are its prospects for success? What are its prospects to break even and then return the sustained profit?

  Kevin Kinsella

  Looks, Fundamentals, Return

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Records, Half, Millions

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• They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

  Chuck Knox

  Running, Distance, Long

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• Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.

  M. Leighton

  Hurt, Heart, Relieved

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• You have to be a winning player just to break even.

  Tom McEvoy

  Winning, Player, Break

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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Bankers, Negative, Dollars

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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• Zeroth law: You must play the game
  First law: You can't win
  Second law: You can't break even
  Third law: You can't quit the game.

  C.P. Snow

  Winning, Law, Games

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• When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

  Joe Carnahan

  Needs, Spending, Millions

  Source: collider.com

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• I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.

  Ben Folds

  Kings, Couple, Years

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

  Mary Balogh

  Hurt, Heart, Long

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit.

  David Letterman

  Party, Believe, Government

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• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  Barbara Corcoran

  Two, Long, Important

  "Will you save in the long run? Refinancing 101" by, www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive

  Drake

  Smoking, Alive, Causes

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• I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

  George Carlin

  Pot, Propositions, Has Beens

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game.

  Dennis Overbye

  Winning, Law, Games

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• In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

  Veronique Vienne

  Believe, America, Depends

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• When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.

  Steve Gaynor

  Games, Parent, Marketing

  "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I think "Avatar" is kind of a unique category where people are enjoying the unique theatrical experience even though they may have seen it on the small screen. They want to have that immersive, transportive experience. "2001: A Space Odyssey" played for three years at the Loews cinema in Toronto. I remember that. It just kept playing. People wanted to return to that experience. That may not be the best example because I think "2001" took 25 years to break even.

  James Cameron

  Thinking, Unique, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Hands, People, Hug

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

  Bat Masterson

  Summer, Winter, Men

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• Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

  Mae West

  Girl, Women, Giving

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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