Top 27 Bill Gurley Quotes

#1. No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Bill Gurley

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#2. I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ice-T

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#3. Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

Bruce Feirstein

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#4. Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

Bill Gurley

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#5. Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.

Donnie Simpson

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#6. If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.

Bill Gurley

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#7. When it comes to politics and women, you have to taste all the sauces, but you must never let either one or the other give you indigestion.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

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#8. It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

Bill Gurley

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#9. Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Bill Gurley

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#10. I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

Bill Gurley

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#11. Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

Bill Gurley

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#12. If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.

Bill Gurley

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#13. Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Bill Gurley

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#14. You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction

Bill Gurley

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#15. As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world.
The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.

Patrick Ness

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#16. Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody.

Guy Davenport

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#17. I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.

Bill Gurley

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#18. Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

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#19. The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

Bill Gurley

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#20. Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.

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#21. It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bill Gurley

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#22. The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish

Tom Robbins

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#23. Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Bill Gurley

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#24. There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Bill Gurley

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#25. Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.

Bill Gurley

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#26. I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Bill Gurley

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#27. It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.

Bill Gurley

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