quotes about Venture Capitalists

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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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

Source : "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.
-- David Heinemeier Hansson

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“I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.”
“That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.”
“Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.”
“Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”
“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”
“Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?”

Source : "I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It." by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2008.
“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.”
“It's still difficult for me to watch my work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.”