Businessman

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.

The only thing... in-store retailing has that online doesn't have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience.

It's tough, no matter how good your technology is, to police every single comment coming up.

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.

All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.

As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.

Google is addictive.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.

I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.

I got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

As someone who understands what's needed for entrepreneurs and start-up companies to succeed, I can tell you there is nothing more integral to their success than operating in a stable financial system.

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.