Hans Vestberg Quotes

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Business is other people's money.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

I'm not in business to make money.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

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

After World War II, the U. S. Government made massive investments in the nascent field of computer science, both in research and in industry. In the 1950s it bought almost 50 percent of all semiconductors that were produced, thus driving down their costs until the private sector could afford to buy them.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

If I had taken money from, say, venture capital, they would have wanted a certain return in a certain time period. McDonald's, on the other hand, seemed very interested in my passion about creating this brand. I trusted them, and they did not really interfere with the brand.

I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.