Investing Quote by Peter Thiel

“As VCs invest more and more money in each company, they have to wait longer and longer before they can exit.”

— Basil Peters

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

— Peter Thiel

VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That…

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we…

— Sabeer Bhatia

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

— Joe Lonsdale

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where…

— Josh Kopelman

It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

— Jose Ferreira

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Edward Snowden

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

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

— Alex Berenson

“Exits are the least understood part of investing—as often by the investors themselves as by the entrepreneurs. This book is about the large number…

— Basil Peters