Jerome Robbins Quotes

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Losing other people's money was terrible.

I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'

There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

The second-worst thing in the world is betting on a golf game and losing. The worst is not betting at all.

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

I've made stupid investments. I've made stupid decisions as an employee. I've made foolish decisions as a manager. I've gotten fired. I've lost businesses. I went through all of those things.

I will say that Surface has been a big disappointment for us and for Microsoft. Both of our expectations from the product were much greater than what came to be and not only that. We invested enormous amount into research and development and spent a lot of time and energy into it.

I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn't know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.

I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.

After games, you think about the play you missed.

It's been sickening how much money I've passed up.

You make money out of things people pay for.

I made a million, and I lost a million.

Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.

That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.