Minimal Investment Quotes

My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

I don't really invest too much in the future.

I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

A business can be started with very little money.

Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really about or go so deep into it. I might just learn the lines and go in and try my best because I know it's not safe for me to love the character or to fall in love with the idea of the role.

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

If you open one little gym that has some mats and one bag, you can save lives.

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.