Quotes About Venture

Innovations are financial risks.

In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.

Insight isn't informational; it is transformational. It is a knowing event. A change transpires. Understanding this distinction makes a big difference to all our knowing ventures. The moment of insight transforms the knower, the known, and the knowing.

The more we trust, the farther we are able to venture.

There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to those who become leaders.

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't. In the Civil War, you had a president pay the railroads $16,000 for every mile of track they laid. You had Eisenhower invest $25 million in a defense agency called ARPA that came up with a thing that became the internet.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

What's a one person wrestling company? There's not such a thing.

What happiness there had been in those days! What freedom! What hope! What an abundance of illusions! She had none left now. Each new venture had cost her some of them, each of her successive conditions: as virgin, wife and mistress; she had lost them all along the course of her life, like a traveler who leaves some of his wealth at every inn along the road.

people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.

Can we get a bank loan to start our business? Answer you're looking for: "No," assuming it's a tech business. Tech businesses don't have liquid assets to use as collateral.

Your job is to find venture capitalists who make early bets on unproven startups.

There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road.

I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the

Once more I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sand like an ogre under a coverlet

They - bliss and fear - are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.

Ultimately the clothing company is a large investment on my part, and I'm taking a huge gamble. But having a focus away from the track is good for you.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.