Mukesh Ambani Quotes

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

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.

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

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Business is other people's money.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.

I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Backing a company is a serious business.

I had a couple of investments that didn't go my way. That's why I laugh at guys who say, 'Oh, I'm going to open a clothing line. I'm going to start a restaurant.'