Businessman Quotes

When I participate in a Series A deal with VCs, entrepreneur-friendly terms go out the window. VCs remain attached to age-old traditional industry terms. 'Ratchet,' 'carry,' 'vetoes' - you name it.
When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.
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While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.
You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.
For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.
I don't view my opinions as the right ones; they are just different.
I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.
I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.
I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.
We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.
After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it's sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be.
Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.
Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is exactly when it's almost impossible for a CEO to quit.
Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.
At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about being an investment banker. I just didn't know what I wanted to do with myself. I think the thing that best suits me about being a C.E.O. is that you get to exercise many different talents and wear many different hats.
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.
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