"Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor."

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Source : "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

Alan Patricof

#Running Quotes #Entrepreneur Quotes #Wish Quotes

“To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.”
“I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.”
“There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.”
“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ***** of himself.”
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

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