Quotes About Revenue

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

My favorite part of festival season is probably the disposable income at hand for me... I get booked for more, and I make more money.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Taxes are going up, under almost any administration. I'm not averse to it because I believe that we've got to get our fiscal house in order and our economy back on track . . . I think those most able to pay the higher tax ought to probably pay a larger share.

WrestleMania is a major event and that's an understatement obviously, but it's a major event from the standpoint that many other companies use WrestleMania as a source of creating new revenue.

A real business is one with something to sell—not one where people have business cards and letterhead.

How long should our business plan be? Answer you're looking for: "You shouldn't write a business plan. You should get customers.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to make records. So you've just got to get out on tour and be smarter about your merchandising.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.

I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels would be taking a piece of touring, merchandise, and everything else. The world has changed so dramatically from when we first started.

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.