Quotes About Investment

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

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.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.