Quotes About Investment

There are not many Cristiano Ronaldos in the world and Real Madrid has made a great financial effort, but Real Madrid wants the best team in the world.

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.

In the past, individuals and companies envisioned a lifetime mutual commitment. That's not realistic anymore - nor is it in the interest of either party. So both parties need a more adaptable way to engage each other and co-invest over shorter periods of time for mutual benefit.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.

I've always flagged that it will take some time to gradually sell down our interest in lighting and basically pivot to be a medtech company focused entirely on health technology.

I'd be up three grand and I'd end up losing the lot. It didn't affect me because I knew I was about to get a move and the signing-on fee would make up for the money I lost.

I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.

You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

All the top clubs want to sign great players, but if you want a great player it costs a lot of money.

Of course money is important - to say it is not in football would be a lie. But to find a good player with potential for a small amount of money and then to develop him in the group is a great pleasure for a manager and for a club.

In England there's a lot of money to create a great team like Barcelona.

I think that good, great things can come at every price.

People are the greatest asset class.

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized, disrupted, so I can sit around and wait for someone to disrupt ourselves, or we can choose to disrupt or cannibalize ourselves.

You can't cost-cut your way to greatness.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.