David Schwimmer Quotes

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.

'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

Business is other people's money.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the middle of the road, broad in appeal. It's restrictive. It's a constant struggle, but if you give in, you're just making cottage cheese, and that's the end of it.

The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.