Quotes About Venture

You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.

That's what's scary about being a venture capitalist and also what makes it so fascinating a world. "This is a business about risk," Ibrahim observed. "The people who are rewarded are the ones who stick their neck out, not the people happy in the pack." The braver the VC, the dumber he or she is likely to look after making a mistake. "Part of being a VC is the risk of making a really stupid investment," she said.

Success for the most part attends those who act boldly, not those who weigh everything, and are slack to venture.

Some who were not yet ready to venture into the chapel on Sundays might well put in their first appearance on a Saturday night to see what Y dyn bach ('the little man') had got to say. (The Welsh term has an element of affection in it not obvious in the English)

When I was first thinking about what would become Venture for America, I was trying to figure out how to solve a problem - that our top young people were being driven to roles that did not, to me, address the needs of our time. That VFA would be a non-profit just seemed like the most efficient way to solve the problem.

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

Nobody seemed to want to venture out into the naked aura beyond the trees where the grass had been bleached to bone whiteness beneath the moon's colourless radiance.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

The Bush administration, meanwhile, played the part of the free-spending venture capitalist of that same heady era. Whereas in the nineties the goal was to develop the killer application, the "next new new thing," and sell it to Microsoft or Oracle, now it was to come up with a new "search and nail" terrorist-catching technology and sell it to the Department of Homeland Security or the Pentagon.

Success excuses all risks.

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

I look at Boston-based companies all the time... There's certainly great companies in Boston. If the deal makes sense on the merit of the deal itself, we'll go and do the deal.

No one knows how to gamble and win, that's why they call it gambling.

This simple idea—anchoring hope to a concrete goal—provided a starting point in my model of hope.6 In this venture, I join recent social scientists who suggest that hope involves the perception that one's goals can be met.

As digital technology reduces the need for labor in many industries, the proportion of the rewards returned to those who own the intelligent machines is growing. A venture capitalist in today's economy can fund a company like Instagram, which was eventually sold for a billion dollars, while employing only thirteen people. When else in history could such a small amount of labor be involved in such a large amount of value?

With so little input from labor, the proportion of this wealth that flows back to the machine owners—in this case, the venture investors—is without precedent. It's no wonder that a venture capitalist I interviewed for my last book admitted to me with some concern, "Everyone wants my job.

Neither Wozniak nor Jobs left their regular jobs: This was strictly a low-risk venture meant for their free time.

Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.

the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.

I bet on a lot of stuff that's low-priced, and most of it's going to go back down to zero. But some of it's going to go up.

I'm so happy that I ventured out beyond the Royal Ballet - which is my home, and I love it - but I would never have pushed myself outside of my comfort zone.