Customer Quote by Sean Parker

If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

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

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

— Evan Williams

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very…

— Andy Murray

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

— Jeff Cooper

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

— Andrew Lo

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend…

— Andrew Tobias

Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are overworked, so…

— Martin Zwilling

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients'…

— Michael Lewis

There is a natural tendency for investors to devote a significant majority of their time to finding new ideas. After all, uncovering great companies…

— Whitney Tilson

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't…

— Daymond John

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to…

— Seth Godin