Robert Gottlieb Quotes

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.

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

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

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.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

Why take the pay-per-view gamble? I don't need to do that.

I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

I've never made a film that lost money.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

You must spend money to make money.

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

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.