Istimer Quotes & Sayings

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

Katie let the curtain fall back into place. Standing before the window, she felt herself let go of the old world and embrace the new. She would survive this. She would go on. That was all there was to it. She wouldn't give up without a fight. She would do whatever it took to survive. — Rhiannon Frater

Why didn't you tell me there was a smoking hot carbon copy of you? — Kimberly Lauren

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late. — John Wooden

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. — Jaggi Vasudev

I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much (inaudible). — J. J. Watt

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but the last half. He helps those who help themselves. — Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue
where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk
otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it. — Mark Twain

But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow. — Ulrich Beck

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise. — Eric Cantona