Ang Lee Quotes

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

There is no elimination of all risks.

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from these rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

Tell a woman it's going to rain, and she'll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there's always the chance of rain ahead.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

I've certainly learnt there's nothing more important than cash - cash flow issues are one of the biggest causes of company failures.

I don't know how this industry works. There is no formula.

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.