Quotes About Opportunity

For growth, I need to be challenged and excited about the project. I need to venture out into unknown territories.

I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries.

When you venture out on your own, you know you may make more money, you may make less money.

It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there's no opportunity behind it, it's going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

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

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

Some of our best-known entrepreneurs started their business ventures when they were kids.

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Frankly, as an entrepreneur, you can do only one thing and be a part of it, but through investing in different ventures, you can be a part of something new and what others are trying to build.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

The Tokyo Dome is a huge venue, so for us, its such a prestigious opportunity.

The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.