Dick Cavett Quotes

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

Marketing is the devil.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

There's always more money to be made.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Modern capitalism is masterful at producing services people don't need and in large part probably don't want. It is brilliant at convincing people that they do need and want them. But it has difficulty turning itself to the production of those services which people really do need. Not only that, it often spends an enormous amount of time and effort convincing people that those services are either unrealistic, marginal or counterproductive.

If there is megabucks in anything, it’s probably going to happen.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

There's a lot of schlock out there.