Top 787 Venture Quotes & Sayings

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and he didn't really rely on venture capital, but I remember the first time I met him and got to talk about Salesforce when they were still private. I thought, 'Damn, that is going to be a huge company.'

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

The venture community is largely male.

There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

I don't really care what the venture industry thinks.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

I'm always ready to venture into new music.

Politics is an unknown territory, which I will never venture.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

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

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly.

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.

The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

I plan to venture into direction as well.

The brave venture anything.

Even if I am paid in crores, I have no interest to venture to politics.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

When you're fundraising for a venture fund, you're supposed to not talk.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

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

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

I was the first guy from a modelling background to successfully venture into films.

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.

There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

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.

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

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

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

'The Venture Bros' are my jam.

Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

Any new venture, you gonna have some bumps in the road.

I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

It's very important to me to have a female venture capitalist.