Rotimi Quotes

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.

If at some point Fox decides that the X-Men properties are no longer lucrative I'm sure that they will cut a deal with Disney.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

When we bought it, Spiegel was in a difficult situation; it made a loss at that time. We invested in it and then it turned around, and then we bought Eddie Bauer and Newport News.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

Speculation, in its broadest sense, is not an evil in itself, but the contrary, and relieves public distress far oftener than it creates it.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.

We were happy with funding 'Rage' on our own nickel for years. We intended to do the same with 'Doom 4'. We had offers early on for 'Rage'. People offered us X million dollars. But we carried the risk, and when we finally signed a deal, it was X plus $10 million.

I have been working on one film at a time. One film recovers a little cost and that helps me move on to the next one.