I'm the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let's build companies of lasting value. — Heidi Roizen Build Copy Share Image
The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house — Heidi Roizen Building Copy Share Image
Don't define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work. — Heidi Roizen Define Copy Share Image
You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right? — Heidi Roizen Business Copy Share Image
I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a… — Heidi Roizen Burdened Copy Share Image
I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went… — Heidi Roizen About Copy Share Image
I thought of calorie-counting as a budget: I was happy to skip bread at dinner so I could 'spend' on a glass… — Heidi Roizen Bread Copy Share Image
You know what somebody else's fundraise metrics are to you? Irrelevant. You know what your own last round post was? Irrelevant. Yes,… — Heidi Roizen Irrelevant Copy Share Image
I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd… — Heidi Roizen Exercise Copy Share Image
Do deals with the people you want to work with, and the success will follow. — Heidi Roizen Follow Copy Share Image
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque. — Heidi Roizen Customer Copy Share Image
I put working out on my calendar as if it were a part of my job. It makes exercise as important a… — Heidi Roizen Calendar Copy Share Image
If you have to be a female in business, Silicon Valley is the best place because it's a meritocracy. It's not about… — Heidi Roizen Best Copy Share Image
I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it's good for my business… — Heidi Roizen Believe Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs. — Heidi Roizen Business Copy Share Image
You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate. — Heidi Roizen Adversity Copy Share Image
My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She… — Heidi Roizen Community Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes. — Heidi Roizen Bigs Copy Share Image
Isn't it interesting that markets are not just perfect? In business school and economic theory, you learn all about those perfect markets,… — Heidi Roizen Business Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many board meetings I've been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that… — Heidi Roizen Business Copy Share Image
I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking… — Heidi Roizen Attitude Copy Share Image
I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop… — Heidi Roizen Business Copy Share Image
You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down… — Heidi Roizen Fail Copy Share Image
If you're the only woman in the room, and you raise your hand, there's a good chance your question's going to get… — Heidi Roizen Chance Copy Share Image
