Jose Ferreira Quotes

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

Understand that VCs are simply a sophisticated form of financial investors who, in turn, need to satisfy their own investors.

I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.

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.

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.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

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

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

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

The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.

There is a difference between being a venture capitalist and a vulture capitalist

In 2014, Blackstone was the most profitable money manager in the world. I did not anticipate that.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

The better I get at investing in and helping companies, the result is more founders who are excited to work with me and more of my wonderful limited partners insisting I take piles of their loot to keep it all going.

We have the Nasdaq private market. But we also want to make sure that every investor has an opportunity to ultimately join in growth and the success of these great companies that we have that have been formed in the United States.

It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.

I founded SkyBridge - an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street's next generation of Wall Street's entrepreneurs - in 2005.

When you look at how technology companies are funded, it's not a zero-sum game. It could be 20 investors in one company, and everybody has to work together for the benefit of that company.

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.