Marc Ostrofsky Quotes
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.
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When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.
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My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.
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There are hundreds of ways to make money using the Internet.
