The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

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.

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

In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former than you've become too full of yourself.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

Love will conquer at the last.

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

True love lasts forever.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.