Quotes About Risk

I took some fights where I didn't care if I won or lost.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

The best films come about through experimentation.

I wouldn't finance a fad if I were a banker.

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets.

When I first went into financial services, people told me not to be too over-optimistic about change.

Too few people in my old field of financial services were ever brought to book for their part in the 2008 crash.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.

There's a fine line between being careful and careless.

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

You cannot play with fire.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.