Quotes and Sayings About Venture
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
-- Aesop -
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
-- Albert Camus -
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
-- Alfred Noyes -
That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
-- Amby Burfoot -
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
-- Andre Gide -
in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
-- Angela Davis -
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
-- Anita Brookner -
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
-- Aristotle -
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
-- Ayn Rand -
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
-- Ben Horowitz -
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
-- Brad Pitt -
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...
-- Catherine the Great -
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
-- Charles Babbage -
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
-- Charles Studd -
If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
-- Christopher Peterson -
I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
-- Cindy Gallop -
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
-- Dan Kimball -
My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.
-- David Plotz -
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
-- David Viscott -
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
-- Denise Levertov -
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
-- E. V. Lucas -
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
-- Ehud Barak -
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.
-- Felix Dennis -
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
-- Felix Dennis -
Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.
-- Felix Dennis -
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
-- Frances Wright
