A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.