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  • Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. -- Sherwood Anderson
  • Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. -- Lydia M. Child
  • Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. -- W. Clement Stone
  • Being, be bold and venture to be wise. -- Horace
  • Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. -- Euripides
  • Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. -- Adam Osborne
  • Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies -- Jack Kerouac
  • Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. -- Carl Sagan
  • I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf
  • When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. -- Richard DeVos
  • We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different. -- Horace Silver
  • It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail. -- Daniel H. Pink
  • We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. -- Aristotle
  • You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last. -- Vernon Howard
  • There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves. -- Ellen G. White
  • I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 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
  • What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. -- Andrea Dworkin
  • My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has. -- Bill Gurley
  • Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living. -- Robin Roberts
  • Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. -- Fred Wilson
  • I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. -- Michael Cunningham
  • Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world. -- Jose Ferreira
  • Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. -- Sherwood Anderson
  • Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible. -- Jose Ferreira
  • I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago. -- Rand Beers
  • Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy. -- Sherwood Anderson
  • 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
  • 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
  • Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way. -- Tahir Shah
  • Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work. -- Bill Maris
  • Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. -- Paul Hawken
  • Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly. -- Juan Enriquez
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  • I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. -- Queen Victoria
  • It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. -- Brad Pitt
  • Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. -- Aesop
  • The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -- Vance Havner
  • I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates. -- David Harsanyi
  • The Indian music market is very film-oriented, and any other creative music venture doesn't receive enough support. I'd rather do singles and put them on my website. -- Shreya Ghoshal
  • My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about. -- Kelly Wearstler
  • But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over. -- Paul Reiser
  • Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects. -- James Surowiecki
  • 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
  • I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. -- Alfred Noyes
  • I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. -- King George V
  • Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. -- Christine Pelosi
  • It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers. -- Naomi Wolf
  • Don't just do something because it's a trendy idea and will make you a lot of money. The reason I say that is because any kind of venture involves going through difficult times. If you're doing something you are passionate about and really believe in, then that will carry you through. -- Jerry Greenfield
  • You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.' -- Stuart Scott
  • I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting. -- Matt Smith
  • The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course. -- Marc Andreessen
  • That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor. -- Michael Arrington
  • Never venture, never win! -- Sun Tzu
  • The brave venture anything. -- Euripides
  • Nought venture nought have. -- John Heywood
  • None wise dares hopeless venture. -- Euripides
  • Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. -- Jim Butcher
  • The venture community is largely male. -- Sandra Lerner
  • Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.] -- John Heywood
  • Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture. -- Sophie Page
  • Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. -- Horace
  • He that would fish, must venture his bait. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. -- Horace
  • Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim. -- Charlotte Curtis
  • Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain. -- Stella Oladiran
  • The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive. -- Douglas Leone
  • Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart. -- Nadège Richards
  • The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture. -- Alex Pareene
  • Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone. -- Andre Gide
  • Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. -- Robert Frost
  • Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • One role of government is to go where venture capital won't. -- Joe Biden
  • Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector. -- Marc Andreesen
  • Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared -- Sheldon B. Kopp
  • The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'. -- John Doerr
  • A venture not accomplished is loss; working together towards success is VICTORY! -- Mark Edward
  • When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture. -- Courtney Barnett
  • The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible. -- Mary Gaitskill
  • If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold. -- Louis D. Brandeis
  • Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in. -- William Gurnall
  • You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ. -- Samuel Rutherford
  • I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes. -- William Carey
  • The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. -- Thomas Paine
  • There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high. -- Peter Barris
  • The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. -- Colin Humphreys
  • I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture. -- Warren G. Harding
  • My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.' -- Rocky Carroll
  • When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art. -- Jonah Lehrer
  • The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose. -- Moses Harvey
  • Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company. -- Bill Maris
  • Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. -- Carl Sandburg
  • It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that. -- Edward Snowden
  • There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture. -- John Doerr
  • Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? -- John Calvin
  • Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. -- Alex Berenson
  • I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. -- Allen Neuharth
  • I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. -- Auberon Herbert
  • Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it. -- Maureen Corrigan
  • He who would not fall off the precipice must not venture too near the edge. -- Frances J Roberts
  • I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. -- Allen Neuharth
  • Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out. -- Nicki Minaj
  • The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires. -- Peter Drucker
  • The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something. -- Henry Norris Russell
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