Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.
For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.
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.
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.
I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office.
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.
We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.
