Quotes About Investment

Government investments in science, technology, and infrastructure have slumped sharply

We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

Yet the idea of American investment was potent. To open the Irish economy up so that British bosses could employ Irish workers was to admit defeat. To have American firms in small Irish towns would be to embrace a thrilling modernity and simultaneously to reconnect with the great Irish-American diaspora in whom so much hope – from tourist dollars to support for the national cause of ending partition – had been invested

A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling the farmer's income.

We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don't put crops in the ground, you can't feed your animals or earn money.

There are two ways you can buy an education in this country. You can pay the fees. Or you can cheat and buy a house in an area where there's a good school.

One of the most enjoyable parts of the job is seeing a young fella who you give a debut to or you buy and see them progress.

On an average, any short film will cost at least Rs. 60,000. Apart from film festivals, where is the avenue to get that money back?

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

There's no other industry in the world where you could spend $100m as frivolously as they do in the film industry. Think about how much good you could do with $100m... it can be spent in 20 minutes on a movie.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a business. You want everyone to make money.

If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking.

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

I wouldn't finance a fad if I were a banker.

I grew up in Finance.

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally.