Aileen Lee Quotes

We like to invest in market leaders.

The 'SheTrades' programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

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

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don't play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don't respond to the actions of active managers.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.

Being women behind a massively growing business is not an easy task, and the journey to find the right investors and to secure true partners has proven that.

With Huda Beauty Angels, we're investing a portion of our personal family wealth to women-led brands that we believe in!

American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

Women are doing wonders as entrepreneurs.

If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.

I would say all power to women entrepreneurs out there.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

I think one should definitely invest, not all the money in one go but keep some and invest the rest as and when required.