Robert G. Allen Quotes

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

If there is megabucks in anything, it’s probably going to happen.

Boxing is boxing and business is business.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

I made some money, some real money on my first real estate transaction.

I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

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

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.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

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 must spend money to make money.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I made a ton of money.

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.