Quotes About Venture

Muchas gracias, my dear," he told her, and bowed low over her hand. "Azeel, please tell her that we could not even contemplate this venture without her courage and help. The entire British Navy is in her debt.

VCs are good at asking questions.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace.

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

Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Won't know unless you try

It sometimes occurs to me that everything I do is a substitute for something else, and that every venture I embark on is a botched attempt at reparation for a thing done or left undone—don't ask me to explain it.

must venture. To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life-everlasting beyond it.

Opportunity doesn't come to the door knocking. You've got to go out and look for it.

Vision isn't enough—it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

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

Entrepreneurs have a name for luck: they call it risk.

Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

The movie business is a big gamble.

he was warning the Senate of "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.