Quotes About Venture

Great success doesn't come without a little bit of risk.

The only way to find out was to try.

Pioneering don't pay.

Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

107. To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

You must make bold experiments in life!

Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.

The great Allied campaign to celebrate (or sell) Democracy, etc., was a venture so successful, and, it seemed, so noble, that it suddenly legitimized such propagandists, who, once the war had ended, went right to work massaging or exciting various publics on behalf of entities like General Motors, Procter & Gamble, John D. Rockefeller, General Electric.

Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave me an excuse to go places I would otherwise be unlikely to venture. It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.

Raise as little as you can to get you to something that you can show - plus maybe a quarter or two so you have a little bit of cushion - and then raise some more money. Raise as little - not as much - as you can because that's the most expensive equity you're going to sell.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

Filmmaking is a gamble.

'Gloria' was a gamble.

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Sanctity means separation from the spirit of the world, with immersion in the activity of the world. Saints would be in the world, not of it; they would have no public relation boosters to publicize them; they would never ask for money; perhaps the one venture which would stand out most in their lives would be poverty of spirit.

The truth that would answer this temptation was that faith in God must never contradict reason. The unreasonable venture never has the assurance of the Divine protection.

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.