Financing Quotes - Page 7

• I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Needs

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• Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.

  Gilberto Gil

  Thinking, Government, Care

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• The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.

  Andre Vltchek

  Military, Media, Wings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.

  Julie Delpy

  Believe, Comedy, Film

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

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• We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

  Ben Stein

  Country, Hate, Dollars

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.

  Duncan Jones

  Moon, Talking, People

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• Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

  Noel Clarke

  Rights, Together, Credit

  "Interview: Noel Clarke Talks To S&A About ‘Storage 24,’ Entering US Market, UK’s Black Talent Drain, ‘Bad Boys’ UK & More…" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

  David Lynch

  Falling In Love, Ideas, Next

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• I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Envelopes, Freak, Bank Accounts

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• People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Office, People

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• Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

  Fred Wilson

  Educational, Want Something, Quality

  "Customer Financing: Sell Something To Get Your Startup Going" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2011.

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• When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

  Naomi Klein

  Sky, Limits, Empty

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.517, Macmillan

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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• In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

  Michael Milken

  Business, Balance, Growing

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• [It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Immigration, Way

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• Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Issues

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Loan

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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