Colin Angle Quotes

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

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.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.