Vincent Tan Quotes

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

Port investments entail a lot of money, and having a partner who can share the risk makes a lot of sense. Often, it makes sense to have a local partner.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

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

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

Money does not guarantee success.

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

I can't invest in areas of comfort.

Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.