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As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while. -- Luke Nosek
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. -- Guy Kawasaki
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. -- Alan Patricof
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe. -- Jose Ferreira
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time. -- Pierre Omidyar
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate. -- Bill Gurley
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. -- Vinton Cerf
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
Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money. -- Bill Maris
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
Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that. -- Ben Horowitz
The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. -- Colin Humphreys
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. -- Ben Horowitz
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. -- Alan Patricof
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons. -- William H. Gates, Sr.
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. -- Gurbaksh Chahal
At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch. -- Ben Thompson
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free! -- Guy Kawasaki
Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches. -- Peter Thiel
Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems. -- Keith Rabois
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. -- Brad Feld
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. -- Adam Osborne
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world. -- Jose Ferreira
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures. -- Paul Johnson
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 capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max. -- Fred Wilson
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

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