Quotes & Sayings About Horrible Pasts

A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is."
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"As David Cowan says, "Just focus on your top five - the rest is distraction." The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit."
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"You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. "
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"Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated. — Mahendra Ramsinghani

Isolated individuals, not members of such groups, usually are unable to make a significant impact on the rest of the society, much less a government, and certainly not a dictatorship. — Anonymous

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. — Kurt Vile

Then, having thus made the Creator responsible for all those pains and diseases and miseries above enumerated, and which he could have prevented, the gifted Christian blandly calls him Our Father!
It is as I tell you. He equips the Creator with every trait that goes to the making of a fiend, and then arrives at the conclusion that a fiend and a father are the same thing! Yet he would deny that a malevolent lunatic and a Sunday school superintendent are essentially the same. — Mark Twain

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. — Renata Adler

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences. — George Weigel

Plus they think the hurricane's going to hit (starts laughing) New Orleans about the time they start. The timing, at least it appears now, that it'll be there Monday. That just demonstrates God's on our side — Donald Fowler

Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad. — Sophie Villalobos

You want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes. — Savannah Stuart

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head — Bethany Hamilton

Because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly — Laura Miller

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey — Timothy Keller

I'm a student of 'istory, which is a bit of the same thing. We learn it so we don't repeat it. Ye've seen things now that no one would believe, and ye'll 'ave to live with the knowledge. There's good in what ye've learned, but there's danger in it, too. It'll be the mark of yer character 'ow ye choose to use what ye know. — April White

Quote/Unquote and you can quote me on the quote/unquote. — Dane Cook