Douglas Leone Quotes

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

These opportunities don't come around too often. It's quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I'm a part-owner of an NFL team.

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.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

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

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

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.

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.

How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.

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

We work. You don't come here to take life easy. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it.

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.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

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

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.

I'd rather have 10 Super Bowl trophies and no MVPs.

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