It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief and misery. Men were once happy and prosperous in th...
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely ...
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower...
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
