Quotes of: Venture-capital Keyword

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...

Jerry Greenfield

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to...

Karl Philipp Moritz

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? [Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]

Abraham Calovius

The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.

Ben Shapiro

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Herbert Marcuse

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.

Quentin R. Bufogle

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Leon Trotsky

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Marcus Buckingham

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

Michael Moore

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

Simon Cowell

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Jacqueline Novogratz

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Fidel Castro

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

John Mackey

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

John Moody

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

Peter Senge

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Janet Yellen

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our re...

Yvon Chouinard

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

Michael Moore

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

Chris Patten