“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.” TryingProblemTogetherJobsThreeProcessDecisionCareersTakenPiecesWeekAmountFlowProductionsFinanceCashOnly TimeInadequatePrepsCash Flow Author:Joe Johnston
“I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.” PeopleChurchLeaderTakenCharityWorriedCashBellsConfusingTaxpayersRegisterBentleyChurch Bells Author:Chuck Grassley
“The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.” StoriesDifferencesLevelsTakenSmartProgramProfitDeterminedSellingBuyingInvestorsCashTradingUnlikelyAdvancingBuying Stocks Author:Benjamin Graham
“One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.” StatesDifferencesUnitedPayUnited StatesTakenArmsFranceCashHostageRansomAppeasement Author:William Safire