Thomas Kaplan Quotes

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

The more effort you put into something, the more you get out of it.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

So it takes years to make a solid company.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

I wanted to put in the time and the work, because eventually it pays off in a good way.

I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could.

Spending big money does not mean you win all the silverware.

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

For me winning isn't surprising at all

Good startups usually take 10 years.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

I truly believe that whoever feels the most confident is usually the one to win.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.