The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
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.
I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.
Secret 400. Those who complain that it's lonely at the top never invite you up there to keep them company.
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.
