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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too…

— Dan Levitan

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

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

— Neil Blumenthal

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

— Peter Thiel

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

— Alex Berenson

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

— Edward Snowden

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

— Steve Jurvetson

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

— Josh Kopelman

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a…

— Fred Wilson

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're…

— Sarah Lacy

The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.

— Heidi Roizen