Financing Quotes · Page 3

The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to…

— Bethany McLean

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing…

— John C. McGinley

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a…

— Kit Williamson

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

— Jane D. Hull

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors…

— Ron Chernow

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

— William J. Clinton

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state,…

— Naomi Klein

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be…

— Bill Murray

Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The roots of the crisis in East Asia were in private sector decisions. The biggest problems were the misallocation of investment, most…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but…

— Philippe Falardeau

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me…

— Sidney Sheinberg

Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell…

— Noel Clarke

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and…

— Abraham Lincoln

If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also…

— Charlene Li

Film and TV is a very hard profession to enter into if you don't have the ability to take a long period…

— Sarah Polley

By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums…

— Abraham Lincoln

The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the…

— Murray Rothbard

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts…

— Christopher Hitchens

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's…

— Alexander Payne

Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions…

— Larry Klayman

During the current period of health care development in our country, improvement of the management quality is becoming increasingly important. This is…

— Veronika Skvortsova

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea and I can pretty much…

— Mike Patton

If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors,…

— Bill Hader

Tax increment financing has demonstrated benefits to supporting the type of development projects we need to make housing more affordable for all.

— Phil Scott

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers…

— Milton Friedman

“the car costs less than $20,000, take a cash-back offer. If it is more than $20,000, a zero-percent-financing deal is better.”

— Suze Orman

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

— Paul Wolfowitz

I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running…

— Janet Napolitano

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

— Andy Dunn

What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth…

— Barack Obama

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

— Thomas P. Campbell

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

— Carroll Quigley

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished…

— Carroll Quigley

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

— Judith Rodin

I think you need clarity with financing [for presidency campaign]. I do think this. I think that you need clarity, you have…

— Donald Trump

I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have…

— Bruno Zheng Wu

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

— Michael Milken

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

— Hubert H. Humphrey