Douglas Leone Quotes & Sayings

“Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.”

“Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.”

“We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.”

“A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.”

“Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.”

“Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.”

“Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.”

“I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.”

“I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.”

“I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.”