Quotes About Risk

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

If you go to a venture firm, what you're doing is you're buying money from them in exchange for equity. They have a commodity that they're selling and they have to differentiate themselves.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture.

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

When you venture out on your own, you know you may make more money, you may make less money.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.