Capitalist Quote by John Doerr Download Open image “The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.” — John Doerr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Danger Risk Venture Venture capitalists
The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
“The goal of venture capitalists is to call the extreme cases correctly, even at the cost of overestimating the prospects of many other ventures.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Venture capitalists make money by buying shares in companies and subsequently selling those shares for more than the original investment. It’s a simple game… — Bill Snow Copy Share Image
Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor. — Omar Hamoui Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital. — Josh Kopelman Copy Share Image
If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass,… — John Doerr Copy Share Image
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making… — John Doerr Copy Share Image
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, — John Doerr Copy Share Image
There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a… — John Doerr Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
