Sajid Nadiadwala Quotes

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

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

I've learned that all investments have risk.

Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

I have always been afraid of banks.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

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

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

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.