James Brown Quotes

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

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

I've never made a film that lost money.

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

I've learned that all investments have risk.

Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.

Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

If you're looking for investment you've got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they're getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.

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

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Business is other people's money.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.