Simon Reuben Quotes

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

People tend to buy dollars when there is a political disturbance elsewhere in the world.

If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

Money would be no object when compared with the value of the acquisition.

We are borrowing cheaply because we are the best looking horse in the glue factory.