Company Funding Quotes

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

Every American business, from the biggest companies to small hardware companies, need money to flow through the system not only to create new jobs but to sustain existing jobs.

I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco.

The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

We definitely are a supporter of lowering corporate income tax and managing through the reprehension of cash for companies because we do think that'll give them more ammunition to grow their businesses and expand what they do.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.

Entrepreneurs say in an economic boom it's actually hard to build a company because everybody's too excited and there is too much money funding too many marginal companies.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

If you're just interested in the prestige of banking, that's not what's going to sustain you. You have to be interested in what we do: managing and originating capital, helping issuers and investors come together is great, bringing these companies to life.

I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. If you want a company to put money into something, then most of the time, they want to water your project down. When it's your money, it's your vision from the beginning to the end result.

Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.