Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite to make multi-million dollar bets on unproven ideas and inexperienced founders. People who can make decisions quickly, and who spend their time trying to help entrepreneurs make the most of that cash.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

As capital is thus the most essential element in setting industry in motion, so it is by the amount of it, that the productiveness of that industry is chiefly determined.

The issue of access to growth capital is common to all entrepreneurs. Any entrepreneur who can demonstrate a credible business model and plan would be able to access to capital.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

There will always be a capital shortage from the perspective of entrepreneurs.

Money goes where it's rewarded. Money goes where it is needed the most.

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

Capital creates space-time.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.