Venture Quotes - Page 13

• Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Long, Awkward

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• There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cozy

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, May, Way

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• The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Different, Desert, Stories

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• The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Essence, Inspire, Special

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• The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Prayer, Answers, Privilege

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• 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.

  Joe Montana

  Two, Guy, Champion

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• Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

  Gus Van Sant

  Records, Selling, Online

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

  Ron Chernow

  Country, United States, World

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• I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

  Bo Bice

  School, Kids, Play

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• I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

  Ehud Barak

  Lectures, Finance, Bigs

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• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  Laura Benanti

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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

  Jack Abramoff

  Support, Trying, Public Speaking

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• When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Creating Things, Investing

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

  Scott Dixon

  Team, Want, Owners

  SI.com interview, www.si.com. August 5, 2011.

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• When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.

  Cindy Gallop

  Team, Men, Design

  "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

  Cindy Gallop

  Starting Up, Design, Beliefs And Values

  "Interview With Cindy Gallop, Feminist Founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.com". Interview with Katie Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Don't just do something because it's a trendy idea and will make you a lot of money. The reason I say that is because any kind of venture involves going through difficult times. If you're doing something you are passionate about and really believe in, then that will carry you through.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Believe, Ideas, Passionate

  "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

  Marc Andreessen

  Firm, Customers, Knows

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• I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

  Monica Ali

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

  Ryan McGinley

  Nice, Thinking, Interesting

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• The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.

  Thomas Berry

  Growing Up, Commitment, Profound

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.166, Crown

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

  Walt Disney

  Mickey, Mice, Personal And Professional Life

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• Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wise, Opportunity, Thinking

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• When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Together, Flavor, Dishes

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