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There’s almost too much venture capital in India—there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there’s a lot of money chasing deals here.
—Ram ShriramIt’s clear to me, when you do private equity well, you’re making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors—such as public pension funds—benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.
—David RubensteinIn the ’70s and ’80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking
like owners.
—Henry KravisThe role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.
—Thomas G StembergAll markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
—Fred WilsonThe problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5 million from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they’re validating your business model. But they’re giving $5 million out to 20 people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don’t really care if it’s you.
—Jon OringerThe most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
—Peter ThielIt’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
—George SorosNot all private equity people are evil.
Only some.
—Paul KrugmanWe need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.
—Chamath PalihapitiyaBootstrap for as long as you can.
—Ron ConwayI think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
—Bill AckmanThe venture capital business is a 100 percent game of outliers—it’s extreme exceptions.
—Marc Andreessen
(This story appears in the 29 January, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)