Quotes About Venture

God the Deliverer The primary truth about God is that He is the Deliverer, the Emancipator, and the Savior. He is God only to the free. Faith is a venture that turns life into an adventure.

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham

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To seek their fortunes further than at home,Where small experience grows.

You can set up a new business venture in Hong Kong and you don't have to constantly check back on what your invested capital is doing.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

You can't know what is impossible until you are willing to venture past what is possible.

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

When you are ready to accept the risk, only then can you open the doors of opportunity

May I venture an explanation: writing is the ultimate recourse for those who have betrayed

There was a world out there, if only he had the courage to go and look for it.

Indeed nature is more suggestive of a mother juggling resources to ensure each family member's welfare as she works out differences of interest to make the whole family a cooperative venture, than of a rational engineer designing perfect machinery that obeys unchangeable laws.

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

The Indian music market is very film-oriented, and any other creative music venture doesn't receive enough support. I'd rather do singles and put them on my website.

Any film you make is a crap shoot.

Most VC firms are looking to bring in women because of the great consumer cycle.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

We've talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we've never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.

It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes, but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown.