"While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do."

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Source : Source: money.cnn.com

Brad Feld

#Trying Quotes #Venture Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.”
“How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?”
“Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.”

Source : David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1853). “The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.255
“You keep life on a short leash.â€ â€œWhatâ€™s that supposed to mean?â€ â€œYouâ€™re scared of what you canâ€™t control.”
“You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.”
“The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity”
“so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists”

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