Venture Capital
Venture capitalists only have two emotions: fear and greed. All their decisions are reached by balancing one against the other. --M. Henos
When we enter a board meeting, we only ask two questions. One, are we going to fire the CEO today? If not, then how can we help? --A. Paladino
We divide business plans into three categories: candy, vitamins, and painkillers. We throw away the candy. We look at vitamins. We really like painkillers. We especially like addictive painkillers!--K. Fong
There are only four ways for a venture investor to exit a deal: IPO, M&A, redemption, or bankruptcy. You can divorce your wife, but you can't divorce us! --J. Kelly
Greed is good. --G. Gekko

Running Your Business
Entrepreneurs have to be comfortable with never having their desk clear at the end of the day. --P. Petit
Look out the window, not in the mirror. --Anonymous
Anything worth doing is worth doing for money. --G. H. Stine
If there had only been government research establishments in the Stone Age, by now we would have had absolutely superb flint tools. But no one would have invented steel. --A.C. Clarke
The best way to predict the future is to create it. --P. Drucker

People Issues
Always surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are. Then allow them to take the credit for successes, while you take the blame for their failures. --P. Peterson
When you find a fabulous person, hire him (or her)... then figure out where they fit later. --T. Engdahl
Visionaries make good things happen. Managers keep bad things from happening. For your company to be successful, you need both. Unfortunately, you rarely find them in a single person. --P. Petit
The job candidates who have the best interviewing skills are those who have done it most often. --B. Neal

Business Plans
A business plan should be used as an opportunity to sell your company, not your product. --T. Crotty
What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell"--what are the facts and to how many decimal places? --R.A. Heinlein
Hope is not a strategy. --M. Henos
You only get one chance to make a first impression. --your Mom
Spelling counts. --your 9th grade English teacher

Closing Thoughts
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't bet, you can't win. --R.A. Heinlein
All the gold in California Is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name. So if you dreaming about California, It don't matter at all where you've played before, California's a brand new game. --The Gatlin Brothers