Jeff Greene Quotes

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

Why take the pay-per-view gamble? I don't need to do that.

Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.

I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you.

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.