David Cohen Quotes

I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

I have a real estate development company. I have investments in all sorts of things, and I dabble all over the place.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

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.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.