Venture capital Quotes · Page 2

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

— Philip Green

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

— David Cohen

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

— Troy Carter

“Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.”

— Georges F. Doriot

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

— Bill Gurley

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

— Brock Pierce

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

— Dan Levitan

Inspirational content really resonates, like how to raise venture capital.

— Justin Kan

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then…

— Joe Lonsdale

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

— Fred Wilson

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

— Ehud Barak

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of…

— Peter Thiel

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently…

— Jose Ferreira

“we founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

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

— Ron Chernow

“Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of…

— Juan Enriquez

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite…

— Sarah Lacy

I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well…

— Aneel Bhusri

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with…

— Kevin Kinsella

Startups run by women still receive venture capital funding at a much lower rate than companies run by men, and there are…

— Randi Zuckerberg

One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way…

— Blake Mycoskie

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around,…

— Howard Dean

I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a…

— Masayoshi Son

I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this…

— Marc Benioff

The stock market has gone up and if you are stock picking, that's fine, you may do a bit better than the…

— Kevin Kinsella

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,…

— Charlie Munger

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide…

— Scott D. Anthony

Basically my point of view on unicorns is that private companies which have sky high valuations, it doesn't really mean anything in…

— Kevin Kinsella

“Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest…

— Mahendra Ramsinghani

“It was the combination of EC2 and S3 - storage and compute, two primitives linked together - that transformed both AWS and…

— Brad Stone

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly…

— Bill Gates

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

— Heidi Roizen

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

— Kenneth Arrow

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

— Josh Kopelman

There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.

— Peter Barris

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

— Marc Andreessen

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of…

— Lynn Jurich

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

— Sam Hinkie

I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to…

— Douglas Leone