Top 41 Ron Conway Quotes
#1. All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'
Ron Conway
#2. By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
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#3. You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.
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#4. The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
Mercedes Lackey
#5. I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
Jim Rohn
#6. Have you ever wanted to smash a car? Or break a television? Or maybe burn a big fire in the middle of a city square? If the answer is yes, then you'd have some fun during a zombie infestation. It's the little moments, you know?
Jesse Petersen
#7. You have learn to hire a management team, you have to learn how to manage You have to want success so badly that you learn how to manage.
Ron Conway
#8. I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.
Ron Conway
#9. Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.
Ron Conway
#10. I am most proud of what sfCiti has accomplished with the 'Circle the Schools' program, which engages companies to enter into long-term partnerships with San Francisco public schools, using an adopt-a-school model.
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#11. I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.
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#12. Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there ... it is the universe.
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#13. As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?
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#14. You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.
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#15. A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.
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#16. As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.
Ron Conway
#17. I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.
Kyra Sedgwick
#18. I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.
Ron Conway
#19. Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.
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#20. All the evil hate in the mad heart of February was wrought into the forlorn and icy wind that cut its way cruelly across Central Park and down along Fifth Avenue.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.
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#22. Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.
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#23. The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
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#24. sleeping beauty/
trips me with a frown
Tori Amos
#25. I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.
Ron Conway
#26. I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.
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#27. Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'
Ron Conway
#28. My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the profound bond and responsibility that I have towards them.
Tiffani Thiessen
#29. When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".
Ray McGovern
#30. The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other.
Ron Conway
#31. Make them want to give you the thing you're taking.
Jess Walter
#32. By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.
Ron Conway
#33. I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.
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#34. When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.
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#35. My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.
Aravind Adiga
#36. Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.
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#37. Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.
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#39. Anytime is a good time to start a company.
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#40. I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.
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#41. Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad, And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad; But the gladness of her gladness, And the sadness of her sadness, Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when she is bad.
Khushwant Singh
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