Adam Neumann Quotes

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

I have been making films for 25 years now and I am not mad to invest in something from where recovery becomes an issue.

I wasn't born into money, and you never know when that money's going to stop coming in.

A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.

If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.

All money is not good money.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

I, like everybody else, have lost most of my pension plan in this economic crash. So I have to. I'm going to call it I Slept With Everyone On Television.

I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich.

I've known numerous actors who got a pilot that they thought was going to run forever, and they went out and blew all of the money. Now they've got a mortgage they can't pay for.

I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn't investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

Capital was always the struggle. I always had these amazing visions. Had this amazing work ethic. Had this amazing work partner in my wife. But I was always struggling for capital. I owe a lot to local banks who were willing to take chances on Jo and I early in our career.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn't know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.