Ted Sarandos Quotes

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

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

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

I know where I'm putting my money.

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.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

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.

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

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.

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.