Quotes About Finance

Privatization of utilities costs would be astronomical, as would setting up a National Bank.

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

I know Anbu Chezhiyan for 6 years. When I wanted to produce, I went and asked him for money. He was the one who gave money for Naan.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

If no producer, no movie.

It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

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.

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.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

ATM is still a cash channel; we want to migrate it to the digital channel.

Most 'digital currencies' are not really digital currencies at all.

Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen.

Not to be biased, but digital wallets are awesome.

Digital is the only way to get rid of corruption and unaccounted cash.

Digital currency is now a misnomer for Bitcoin. It can be used as currency, but it can be used for many things.

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.