Venture Quotes

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

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.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

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

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.