Quotes About Finance

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.

I've been fortunate enough to experience financial success on a large scale through both my music career and my many business ventures. With this type of financial success comes financial responsibility.

I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

By the time I went to sleep tonight, Crowley would have gone the way of the dodo and the balanced budget.

you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to

With higher saving and investment rates, both public and private, directed towards productive capital, the United States could overcome secular stagnation.

Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.

What's this? Petty Cash

Your processes are amazingly fast, yet flexible, and the people at Screaming Circuits, from finance to the factory floor, are all knowledgeable and a joy to work with.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.