Keith Jackson Quotes

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

If you lose, you are out; if you win, you are the flavour of the month.

Bigger risk equals bigger reward.

At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

There's no second-place winners in this league.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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

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

Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.

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 you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.

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

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.

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

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

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

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

In Washington, if you don't win, you lose. If you don't survive, you die. If you don't prosper, you fail.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from these rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.