Better Quote by Vinod Khosla

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink…

— Eric Ries

The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United…

— Jim Breyer

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

— Neil Blumenthal

During times of plenty - when venture funding is abundant and startups multiply like rabbits - every business looks like a winner.

— Neil Blumenthal

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

— David Sze

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

— Fred Wilson

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

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

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'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if…

— Aneel Bhusri

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive…

— Scott D. Anthony

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

— Kenneth Arrow