Sequoia Quotes

#1. If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

Douglas Leone

#2. We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Douglas Leone

#3. At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#4. When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

Harold C. Schonberg

#5. We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

Adam McKay

#6. As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.

Alfred Lin

#7. We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

Douglas Leone

#8. Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say ... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles ... I'm in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee ... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.

John Muir

#9. At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

Roelof Botha

#10. I am trying to make an emotional point. I don't expect you to understand me on that level - you are but a romantic sapling. I am a sequoia, so you'd be well advised to listen to what I have to say.

David Levithan

#11. A sequoia seedling is always a sequoia at every point along its path to becoming a towering tree. And so are you always an empowered, fulfilled woman on your way to even greater empowerment and fulfillment.

Ali Binazir

#12. If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.

Bill Maris

#13. I am a single note, a tone that peals in the wind. I am in the magic of the moment and then he returns, flowing toward me around the thick immense bark of the Sequoia.

Sophia Rose

#14. Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

John Muir

#15. I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Alfred Lin

#16. What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Edward Abbey

#17. In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

Chris Paine

#18. ...I asked a friend if he felt 'different' when he was the only uncircumcised man in the shower and he said,'Yes, gloriously different.

Kristen O'Hara

#19. Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.

Adolf Hitler

#20. It was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with

Kathryn Stockett

#21. I'm not that smooth.

Shia Labeouf

#22. It's been a long time since I let a man boss me around. I kind of miss it.

Tiffany Reisz

#23. I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

Rashida Jones

#24. If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

#25. It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

Warren Christopher

#26. The pathway to lasting honor is to honor Christ.

Alistair Begg

#27. As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Wynton Marsalis

#28. Narcissists commonly cut people off and out of their lives due to their shallow emotional style of seeing others as either good or bad.

Karyl McBride

#29. Bekily, a 12-year-old ring-tailed lemur at London Zoo, grabbed his keeper's camera to take a selfie

Anonymous

#30. My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Anne Rice