Billy Beane Quotes

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

This is a third world environment.

The will is there; the money is not there.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

We are to give money of which we have to little for land of which we have too much.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

This dear bought Land with so much blood and cost, hath only made some few rich, and all the rest losers.

We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

There are massive clubs with massive amounts of money, and Liverpool were always a little bit behind. But if you create a good team, a good atmosphere, and work hard, you can get there. You can win trophies.

Each creative choice you make has 'x' many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have 'y' many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.