Quotes about Ventures

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. Votes: 4

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management. Votes: 4

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention. Votes: 3

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed. Votes: 3

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision. Votes: 3

None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures. Votes: 3

Age considers; youth ventures. Votes: 2

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. Votes: 2

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values. Votes: 2

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. Votes: 2

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre. Votes: 2

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. Votes: 2

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. Votes: 2

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. Votes: 2

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. Votes: 2

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college. Votes: 2

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. Votes: 2

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. Votes: 2

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means. Votes: 2

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Votes: 2

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. Votes: 2

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils. Votes: 2

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. Votes: 2

It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012. Votes: 2

My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me. Votes: 2

Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures. Votes: 2

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Votes: 2

India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then India's industrial situation is similar to us. Both have big companies but are dominated by small and medium-sized companies. It is extremely important for both to do joint ventures. Votes: 2

You can get into any business by leveraging joint ventures. Votes: 0

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason! Votes: 0

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Votes: 0

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear. Votes: 0

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. Votes: 0

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. Votes: 0

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth. Votes: 0

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. Votes: 0

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown. Votes: 0

Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base Votes: 0

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. Votes: 0

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. Votes: 0

An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing. Votes: 0

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing. Votes: 0

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day. Votes: 0

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice. Votes: 0

Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures? Votes: 0

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off. Votes: 0

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person. Votes: 0

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. Votes: 0

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can. Votes: 0

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. Votes: 0

I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner. Votes: 0

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. Votes: 0

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations. Votes: 0

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures. Votes: 0

One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures. Votes: 0

In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic. Votes: 0

I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself. Votes: 0

Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that. Votes: 0

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause. Votes: 0

At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life. Votes: 0

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. Votes: 0

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming. Votes: 0

I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day. Votes: 0

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures. Votes: 0

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. Votes: 0

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures. Votes: 0

At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments. Votes: 0

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. Votes: 0

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research. Votes: 0

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis. Votes: 0

From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices. Votes: 0

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters. Votes: 0

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures. Votes: 0

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor. Votes: 0

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart. Votes: 0

More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived. Votes: 0