Venture capital Quotes · Page 2

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

— Steve Jurvetson

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

— Alex Berenson

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

— Anonymous

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

— Bill Gurley

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

— Georges F. Doriot

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

— Troy Carter

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 basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also…

— Emily Chang

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

— Nolan Bushnell

I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.

— Mitch Kapor

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

— Mariana Mazzucato

Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.

— Neil Blumenthal

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same.…

— Stephen Pagliuca

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

— Fred Wilson

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture…

— Colin Angle

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks -…

— Jose Ferreira

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What…

— Eric Ries

Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during…

— James Surowiecki

I want to open up investment even further so over the summer we'll launch a consultation on indirect investments in social enterprises…

— David Gauke

Venture-capital firms invest in trends by projecting returns. But most projections are pretty much bogus, and research shows that experts are no…

— Vinod Khosla

Techstars is truly global; you'll see us continue to expand all our programs worldwide, including accelerators, our venture capital, as well as…

— David Cohen

“Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is…

— Mahendra Ramsinghani

I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see…

— Andrew Yang

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the…

— Anonymous

There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be…

— Georges Doriot

I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding…

— Rick Perry

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

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

A lot of the philosophies of the businesses are just 'we're interested in getting customers now and if we're losing money with…

— Kevin Kinsella

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk…

— Tom Silverman

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

— Alan Patricof

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

— Joe Biden

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

— Emily Weiss

“First-time fund is acceptable, but not a first-time investor.”

— Mahendra Ramsinghani

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer…

— Dan Levitan

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

— Alex Berenson

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

— Sanjay Kumar

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

— David Sze