Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Moritz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh businessman Michael Moritz.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz is a Welsh billionaire venture capitalist, philanthropist, author and former journalist. Moritz works for Sequoia Capital and wrote the first history of Apple Inc., The Little Kingdom, and of Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler. Previously, Moritz was a staff writer at Time magazine and a member of the board of directors of Google. He studied at the University of Oxford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and went on to found Technologic Partners before becoming a venture capitalist in the 1980s. Moritz was named as the No. 1 venture capitalist on the Forbes Midas List in 2006 and 2007.

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It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

Michael Moritz

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Michael Moritz

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

Michael Moritz

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

Michael Moritz

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

Michael Moritz

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Michael Moritz

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

Michael Moritz

My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

Michael Moritz

Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

Michael Moritz