Quotes About Venture Capital

The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts - whether practice-management companies, home health care or the first for-profit HMO - almost always have come from entrepreneurial firms, often backed by venture capital.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

Grow fast, lose money, go public, get rich. That's the model.

Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit.

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.