Venture Quotes - Page 22

• Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

  Les Wexner

  Giving, Entrepreneur, Waiting

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• INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Fall, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

  Sean Connery

  Successful, Office, Brain

  "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

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• It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

  James Payn

  Thinking, People, Sacred

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

  John Fogerty

  Surfing, Done, Magazines

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• There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

  John Doerr

  Accelerate

  "Betting on a Green Future". www.wired.com. April 11, 2006.

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• People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Thinking, Order, People

  Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.59, Macmillan

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• We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.

  Ameen Rihani

  Color, Class, Race

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• My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

  Robert Darnton

  Taken, Historical, Library

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• A venture not accomplished is loss; working together towards success is VICTORY!

  Mark Edward

  Loss, Victory, Working Together

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• But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes.

  Hugh Miller

  Eye, Dark, Yawning

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.298

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• There are many options in a marriage. If the couple has been together for a certain amount of time and has a certain amount of liberalism or life experience, it could be the kind of relationship in which one partner ventures into the occasional affair, which is then forgiven. This only happens every 13 years on average, but it obviously does occur.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, Average, Years

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• There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization

  Georges Doriot

  Jobs, Doors, Organization

  Georges Frederic Doriot, Udayan Gupta (2004). “The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization”, p.73, Calgary : Gondolier

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• Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls "make up" and politics calls "character" - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Character, Maturity

  "Play Ball: 7 Lessons From Baseball for Politics" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Exit, Too Short

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

  Keith Rabois

  Two, Office, Venture Capitalists

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

  Lucretius

  Imperfection, Atoms, Divine Power

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• Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mean, Needs, Tools

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• I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.

  Pamela Anderson

  Character, Hair, People

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

  David Viscott

  Water, Risk, Toes

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• I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

  Aaron Zigman

  Player, Years, Tennis

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• Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Years, Gold

  "Paul Krugman on Why David Stockman Is a Crank". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. June 6, 2013.

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• My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Voice, Risk, Life Is

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• Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Deception, Gains

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• When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Sea, Guides

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