Quotes About Investment

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

When people are your greatest asset, like at Deloitte, investments in human capital should be considered in the same way other companies might invest significantly in product R&D.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

You don't try to have the very lowest cost of an asset. You try to have the right asset. So rather than thinking about the lowest cost, the question is how do you get the best productivity.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Family is the future, security is the future, work is the future, investment is the future, dignity is the future.

The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.

Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.