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.

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

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.

Dare to travel on new path.

Anger carries a person in your mind forever.The day U can stand in the room with some1 without being affected is the day you truly moved on

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

Human cloning is coming.