Steve Bannon Quotes

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.

Wall Street is not the right career for everyone or for every woman. That is clear. But it can't be wrong for every woman. A big job in a trading house can't only be the head of Human Resources or chief operating officer in charge of overhead.

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

I love doing deals and operating companies.

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.