Greg Brenneman Quotes

I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before we know if what we're doing makes sense and the customers want it - that's not going to work.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

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.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.

I have no proper money to invest!

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

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.

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.