Top 100 Ventures Quotes
#1. Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#2. None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
J. B. Pritzker
#3. Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?
Horst Rechelbacher
#4. In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it ... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
Russell Simmons
#5. We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.
Vinod Khosla
#6. Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#7. Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
Sam Kean
#8. I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.
Matt Kuchar
#9. I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.
Scott Dixon
#10. Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
J. Paul Getty
#11. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.
Peter F. Drucker
#12. No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.
'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it ...
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
#13. A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.
Eric A. Havelock
#14. My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
Lauren Conrad
#15. At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#16. As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
Wayne Kramer
#17. Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.
Russell Simmons
#18. Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
Neil Strauss
#19. My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
Laura Benanti
#20. Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
John Bowlby
#21. One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.
Norbert Reithofer
#22. Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.
Nas
#23. I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
Cindy Gallop
#24. Most ventures fail in the early stages because people stop trying after they're told no too many times.
Adam Braun
#25. Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.
Silas Weir Mitchell
#26. During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
#27. Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.
Jonathan Raymond
#28. When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
William O. Douglas
#29. INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Euripides
#31. The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.
Peter Drucker
#32. A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart.
Debasish Mridha
#33. That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
David Selby
#34. The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
Charles Kettering
#35. Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
Tom Peters
#36. The gentle outlast the strong The obscure outlast the obvious Hence, a fish that ventures from deep water is soon snagged by a net A country that reveals its strength is soon conquered by an enemy
Lao-Tzu
#37. He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
Friedrich Schiller
#38. The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
Elizabeth Fry
#39. An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.
Nicko Widjaja
#40. A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private ownership, limited government way of life. Many business ventures fail entirely. Who then are the beneficiaries? The masses!
Leonard Read
#41. I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.
Mitch Lasky
#42. In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Carl Wilson
#43. Before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!
Alice Walker
#44. He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
Heinrich Heine
#45. As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
Earl Nightingale
#46. Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
#47. 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
#48. That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
Amby Burfoot
#49. More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.
Peter Dicken
#50. On such ventures as these one is
inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream.
Michael Moorcock
#51. You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow's peace out of today's crisis.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#52. MIND OF A MAN is always active and fabricating
something. Even in its hibernation, it creates imaginative
zones, arenas where it ventures whenever it has time or
will to do so".
Rashmi Singh
#53. Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Linus Torvalds
#54. Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.
Walter Raleigh
#55. Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
Christie Hefner
#56. A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
Joseph Campbell
#57. The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to do the same for another culture, however, it betrays its limitations, underdevelopment, semantic weakness.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#58. Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#59. Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
Frank Herbert
#60. An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
Edmund Phelps
#61. I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
Jack Abramoff
#62. I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated!
Joseph Conrad
#63. My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
Robert Darnton
#64. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circles no grief or folly ventures.
Mary Shelley
#65. Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner
#66. Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.
Richard Li
#67. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M.F.K. Fisher
#68. One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
Bruce Dickinson
#69. One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
Marianne Moore
#70. Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.
Alan Greenspan
#71. For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.
Scott Adams
#72. When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.
Felix Dennis
#73. Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
John Fogerty
#74. The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
Oprah Winfrey
#75. It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.
Nick Denton
#76. A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.
Paul Johnson
#77. Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
Charles Studd
#78. Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed so profusely among us during the last decade, that he should be an expert indeed who ventures to add thereto.
Harrison Gray Otis Dwight
#79. At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.
David H. Murdock
#81. I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
Donna Air
#82. There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
Julia Cameron
#83. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
George Haven Putnam
#84. When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.
Richard Branson
#85. If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard Baruch
#86. My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
Richard Branson
#87. Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should
first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.
Tomislav Sunic
#88. We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
Bill Maris
#89. First learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
Marshall Field
#91. I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.
Joe Montana
#92. You can get into any business by leveraging joint ventures.
Ehab Atalla
#93. You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity
Ikechukwu Joseph
#94. Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
Friedrich Engels
#95. Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
#96. Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.
Jean Batten
#97. Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
Bill Maris
#98. I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
Lapo Elkann
#99. I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.
Richard Branson
#100. Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
Edmund Phelps