Raising Capital Quotes

#1. Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

Jon Oringer

#2. Skillful pitching ... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?

Guy Kawasaki

#3. For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

Irwin Winkler

#4. I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley,

Carl Sagan

#6. No, I got it," he said. His voice was weird.
"Really?" I felt a nervous thrill in my stomach. "What was it?"
Jamie hesitated before he spoke. Then he said, "Marashaw.

Michelle Hodkin

#7. We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.

Mark Sanford

#8. I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

Henry Miller

#9. Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

Jay Samit

#10. A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.

Tift Merritt

#11. Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive.

Rachel Caine

#12. I prepare for my new life as an adult like some people prepare for the apocalypse. The first day or two of my plans usually goes okay.

Allie Brosh

#13. It's very possible that if you are very jealous, you are not being treated with love and respect.

Robert Rain

#14. If you # love love, look for yourself.

Rumi

#15. Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

John Podhoretz