For the actor who celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship and believes in taking calculated risk stocks , land and gold remain preferred investment avenues. Rashmi Menon of ET finds out what percentage of investment Leone spends on stocks and gold.Money makes the world go round.It's part of our lives, how we function and how we move forward and are able to do all the things that we want to do. I came from a family that didn't have a lot of money. I saw the struggle of my parents and learnt a lot from my father.It was from my parents. They always advised me to be independent and live on my own. You have to do everything on your own and cannot count on anyone. I think, it was one of the best pieces of advice I got.​Calculated and a control freak. A lot of my business investments -mutual funds, stocks or even Lust (Leone's deo and perfume line) -are all very calculated. I am a control freak so , everything is very calculated. There is obviously risktaking involved but it's a calculated risk.I started my own business in entertainment when I was 18 and the investment was in me, my own brand. Everything I was making, I was putting it back into my company.I taught myself HTML, how to build a website, built first affiliate programme, editing photos, etc. That cost money and a lot of time. So, that was my first real big investment.I also spent a lot of time going to different webmaster conventions, learning about traffic, the industry and different things I could do on my own.I spent it on candies, I think. It was the money I saved by putting up lemonade stands in the summer and shovelling snow in the winter when I was seven or nine years old. But the first big purchase I made, however, was buying a tape cassette of Salt-NPepa without my parents' permission when I was 13. Things they talked about were very intriguing for me then. It was around $9-$20.I would say 40% in stocks and 30% each in land and gold. Majority of our investments are in mutual funds and stocks in the US. I am still trying to figure out my way here. It's not easy to invest in India Real estate is always a safe investment and with gold, we prefer gold bonds rather than buying physical gold.We have put an amount of money in IRA (Individual Retirement Account) and other safe investments in the US.We also have a certain percentage that our broker has invested in all these certain things. Interestingly, during Brexit , we lost some money.We didn't think we were going to be affected by it but few things we invested in, lost money. It will go back up eventually.Another investment I have blind faith in is my ranch style 5,000-sq feet home in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.I have spent a lot of money fixing it. If I ever have to sell it, I know I will make money on it.Yes, we spend a lot of money on health coverage -Obamacare and private insurance -in the US. In India, the healthcare is amazing. Here, I call the doctor and he will make house calls and actually cares about my well being.In the US, it's mandatory to insure everything. So, we have home insurance, earthquake insurance and car insurance. In India, we have car insurance for our BMW 7 series car.We have IRAs in the US. So, we have our retirement plans. If I wasn't in this industry and wasn't fortunate enough to be successful, and if I were to cash in my retirement, I wonder where it would have gotten me? It's next to nothing.But we have so many different investments that I believe if Bollywood ended today, these other investments will be able to sustain the lifestyle and growth, but in a different direction.Jessica Simpson. I love her business model. She took her brand that was big and all of a sudden invested in her own shoe line. From shoes it expanded to clothes and other things and she now owns a multi-million dollar company.As a woman and someone in entertainment, that's someone I would look up to and say you have done an amazing job.buy a nice house. You can be unhappy in your house or try to be happy in your new house.