Quotes About Venture

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

Take risks and try new things.

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!

A journey to nowhere also begins with a single step

There are whole industries, such as venture capital, that are currently organized around the belief that innovation is essentially a game of playing the odds. But it's time to topple that tired paradigm. I've spent twenty years gathering evidence so that you can put your time, energy, and resources into creating products and services that you can predict, in advance, customers will be eager to hire. Leave relying on luck to the other guys.

I lived, I suppose, in a cell of my own creation, while outside its walls lay a landscape of unparalleled richness. But I could not bear to venture there. In my self-delusion I thought I was a minor king, and I didn't want to step beyond the bounds of what I knew for fear I lost my dominion.

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?

there is no such thing as a riskless strategy Strategy will always involve both opportunity and risk

and offered to lobby on behalf of the expedition in exchange for 20 percent of the profits.

the more pragmatic Haro estimated that Magellan's expedition could yield a profit of 250 percent.

clever way of donating a portion of the expedition's profits to the Church.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

each transition will involve some kind of loss. Growth will always be costly; a new venture will always involve some form of letting go. It may be a matter of separation—from parents or from those who are part of an old way or an old world. It may involve leaving behind the comfortable and the secure. Each transition will be a small death, and the new life, the new opportunity and the new challenge will only come as we let go.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

I have seen the way a conglomerate works. My personal calling was in start-ups, so I built my own start-up.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.