Alan Patricof Quotes

I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

What the entrepreneur gets on 'Dragons' Den' is direct access to people with masses of experience who can actually make quick decisions.

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

I don't really care what the venture industry thinks.

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both large and small.

Financing is always the hard part, especially if you don't have friends or family to back you, which was my case and the case for most designers.

If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.

We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.