Andrew Tan Quotes

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

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

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.

I feel like investing in really solid stuff that I can control.

I think one should definitely invest, not all the money in one go but keep some and invest the rest as and when required.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

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.

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.

I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

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

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.