Fred Wilson Quotes

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there, right?

Good wares make good markets.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

The battle of competition is fought by the cheapening of commodities

Supply and demand don’t work on a legislative schedule.

I would love to see more certainty on tax policy and regulations, but in a sense that is a crutch….We need more certainty of demand.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

It's gotten more open and easy to create a business on the Internet. That's a really awesome thing for entrepreneurs and for the world.