Frederick W. Smith Quotes

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

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

Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.

Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.

When making an investment, the people are more important than the product.

We believe the size is almost irrelevant to investment success. Our size has certainly not diminished our enthusiasm for investing in our funds, our ability to find or create opportunities, or our performance outlook.

Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.

You don't tell a player you can't monitor your investments for a month. There's no way you're going to have a billion-dollar investment and never fail to monitor it for a period of time.

We take dispassionate view of our investments. Does it mean that we are looking out to monetise the investment? That is not correct. But if we get an offer that we cannot refuse, as I say, then it is not that we are not, that we will still hold on to the investment.

I know it may come off cheesy, but if somebody's going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more into you, you want to make sure you can return that; you want to make sure they feel good about their investment.

When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.