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Financed Quotes

Where the money for an idea actually comes from.

These financed quotes cover self-funded creative projects and charitable support, showing different reasons people put up their own money. See our Being quotes for related reflections.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

Quotes by Ziggy Marley

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

Quotes by Suzi Quatro

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on...

Quotes by Steven Shainberg

We have religious freedom - which is important. But we want everyone in our country to respect our laws, and our laws on Islam say it is not acceptable to have influence abroad on the Muslim community in Austria, and...

Quotes by Sebastian Kurz

Angry Quotes

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

Quotes by Ruben Hinojosa

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

Quotes by Richard Linklater

I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at...

Quotes by Rich Moore

U.S. capital formation, which has been pretty high in the '90s and very high in the late 1990s, is what is being financed by the savings of the rest of the world, generally poorer than ourselves, because our deficit on...

Quotes by Paul Samuelson

The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn't go down there, being...

Quotes by Patti Davis

Being Quotes

The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

Quotes by Oliver E. Williamson

Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.

Quotes by Michelle Alexander

If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

Quotes by M. Stanton Evans

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

Quotes by John Bolton

Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed...

Quotes by Ha-Joon Chang

Like Quotes

The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.

Quotes by Freddie Wong

When I see a lot of the big Hollywood movies, I see they are all financed by Indian studios.

Quotes by Farah Khan

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

Quotes by Estelle Morris

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

Me Quotes

I feel as though perhaps there's not a great match between the content I'm attracted to and the content that is considered attractive to some of the more major or more traditionally financed entities.

Quotes by Debra Granik

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of financing appear in this topic?
The quotes cover a self-funded music album, personal charitable support for a teacher abroad, concerns about political funding, and how independent film gets defined by its funding sources.
Is self-funding a theme in this collection?
Yes, one speaker describes financing their own album independently while still searching for a label or home for the finished work.
Does this topic touch on political funding concerns?
Yes, one quote raises concern about the political system being funded by rich private donors buying influence, framing it as a distortion of fair representation.
How is independent film defined in this collection?
One quote defines it by what it's not: a movie not financed by smaller film companies and typically made without major stars attached.
What related topic covers similar ground on personal generosity?
Our Being quotes touch on related reflections about personal values and choices.

One quote raises concerns about wealthy private interests financing the political system, while another defines independent film by its funding sources. Continue with our Like or Me quotes.