“I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.” WayUseSidesMoneyPiecesGoldTwentiesDollarsSpendingCircusTentsSpending MoneyBack Side Book:10 Books in 1 Source: 10 Books in 1
“The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."” WayWantGivingGuyBrainMillionsPiecesGeniusIndependentSellsDollarsFranceGermanyDistributionMillion DollarsFinancing Author:Bill Murray
“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.” LittlesHas BeensMightIndividualCompanyMillionsPiecesPaperDollarsBillionsSellingFascinatingOwnersMight Have BeenBorrowedValuation Author:Charlie Munger
“The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.” WorldArtMillionsPiecesDollarsCorporationsCrapGalleryMillion DollarsArt World Author:Betty Dodson