Financing Quotes

• On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

  Jeff Bezos

  Two, Variables, Size

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

  Claire Danes

  Taken, Two, Plums

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 1, 2003.

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• Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

  Alex Winter

  Problem, Should, Should I

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

  Jane D. Hull

  School, Arizona, Construction

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• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Country, Believe, Government

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Family, Successful, Caring

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• In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

  Carroll Quigley

  Government, Way, Pressure

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

  Carroll Quigley

  Depression, War, Use

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

  Theodore Levitt

  Clever, Engineering, Purpose

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Giving, Focus

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.

  Hillary Clinton

  Campaigns, Problem, Donors

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• People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

  Desmond Tutu

  Business, Ties, People

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Swimming, Apples

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the creation process. Then after the creation, there are producer fees, mixing, mastering, photo shoots, artwork, packaging, artist feature fees, legal fees, clearances, and so on that must be covered before any music can officially be released to the public.

  Mya

  Artist, Self, Challenges

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.

  Julie Davis

  Independent, People, Asking

  Source: collider.com

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• I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

  Hannes Holm

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

  Bernie Sanders

  President, Knows

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

  Parker Posey

  Directors, Different, Indie Movie

  Source: www.elle.com

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• While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

  Sammy Hagar

  Decision, Band, Management

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

  Kit Williamson

  Powerful, Dark, Thinking

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• There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Home, Cutting, Years

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I've had this opportunity to get some of my financing out of Europe, which has helped tremendously, so I'm not completely dependent on the studio system or on U.S. financing.

  Julie Delpy

  Opportunity, Europe, Dependent

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• In order to make a movie it isn't enough to have a script, it isn't enough to have a director, it isn't enough to have a male actor and a female actor, it isn't enough to have financing. You have to have them all at the same instant.

  Lester Persky

  Order, Scripts, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.

  Edward Said

  Taken, Law, Support

  Source: www.progressive.org

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