I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.