Quotes About Venture Capitalists

#1. Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

John Doerr

#3. Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

Fred Wilson

#4. Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Scott Adams

#5. Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

Jose Ferreira

#6. There is a lack of female venture capitalists, and so there are fewer female-oriented businesses getting funded. Intel has done a good job of creating a message across Intel, and they are putting their money where their mouth is.

Brit Morin

#7. Venture capitalists make money by buying shares in companies and subsequently selling those shares for more than the original investment. It's a simple game fraught with complexities.

Bill Snow

#8. First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Vint Cerf

#9. What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

#10. Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Adam Osborne

#11. Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel

#12. Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Jose Ferreira

#13. Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

Jose Ferreira

#14. The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

Bill Gates

#15. Venture capitalists' job is to invest in risky projects. But after shying away from risk for years, VCs finally found there was no longer anybody willing to found a risk-taking company.

Anonymous

#16. 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

#17. At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.

Ben Thompson

#18. Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy.

Paul Graham

#19. Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Bill Maris

#20. 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

#21. This presentation was truly a testament to the epic magnitude of getting into Thomas Treadwell's class. This exercise was pointedly not some theoretical simulation dreamed up by an academic with no real-world experience. We were presenting our ideas to real venture capitalists and angel investors.

Mitty Walters

#22. Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Elon Musk

#23. 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

#24. I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

Dennis Rodman

#25. Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood
and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue youi could get better somewhere else.

Raymond Chandler

#26. While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Brad Feld

#27. Sullivan, just pick it up."
"My way is more genteel."
"Your way is more tight ass."
"Your respect for me, Sentinel, is astounding."
"I'd respect you more if you took a bite of that dog."
"You don't respect me any."
"Like I said, I'd respect you more. More than none.

Chloe Neill

#28. Please let me find a way to stay here. Please let me find it before the sun comes up.

H.R. Willaston

#29. It's a sort of literary act of survival. I don't have many words to express myself
rather, the opposite. I'm aware of a state of deprivation. And yet, at the same time, I feel free, light. I rediscover the reason that I write, the joy as well as the need.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#30. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. Do you think that everyone gets to be a star like that? Do you think that everyone gets to be seen? Gets to be loved? Gets to glow? They don't. They don't get to do it like you did. They don't get to be as beautiful as you were. And you just wanted to burn up.

Ava Dellaira

#32. Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#33. He lowered his face to hers and spoke against her mouth. I don't want to imagine you not in my life.

Rachel Gibson

#34. The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

Swami Vivekananda

#35. 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

#36. Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

William H. Gates, Sr.

#37. It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.

James Joyce

#38. 'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

Nnedi Okorafor

#39. Most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein