Alexis Ohanian Quotes

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

I endorsed supplements for about 15-20 years and made a lot of people a lot of money, so I figured I should do my own line and make my own money.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

I'm not in business to make money.

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Everything is for sale if the price is right.

Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

There are so many movies people make just to make money.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

If you're looking for investment you've got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they're getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.

You make money out of things people pay for.

If the price is right, I will sell anything.

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.

I want all my films to do well.

In the face of a big offer, no player is not for sale.

It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.

We like to get money. Whoever wants to work with us and make some money, let's do it.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

Everyone wants their film to do well and I am no different from them.

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'