Innovative Ventures Quotes

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

With Virgin, I've just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

I'm never at a loss for new projects.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

I think we should support entrepreneurialship.

Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.