Quotes by Investors

Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham]

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.

In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

...it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)