Words matter. These are the best Heidi Roizen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You can’t write about a personal struggle if you’re going to water it down to meet everyone’s expectations about what’s appropriate.
Don’t define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work.
Isn’t it interesting that markets are not just perfect? In business school and economic theory, you learn all about those perfect markets, and there’s no such thing as a perfect market.
If you have to be a female in business, Silicon Valley is the best place because it’s a meritocracy. It’s not about who you are, it’s about what you can do.
You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?
I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it’s good for my business as well.
You know what somebody else’s fundraise metrics are to you? Irrelevant. You know what your own last round post was? Irrelevant. Yes, I know, not legally, because of those pesky rights and preferences. But emotionally, trust me: it is irrelevant now. We even have a name for this – valuation nostalgia.
If you’re the only woman in the room, and you raise your hand, there’s a good chance your question’s going to get answered. You stand out.
I can’t tell you how many board meetings I’ve been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that cost cutting or layoffs will bring about. You know what hurts morale even more than cost-cutting and layoffs? Going out of business.
I’m the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let’s build companies of lasting value.
I don’t know any successful entrepreneur that doesn’t have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.
I thought of calorie-counting as a budget: I was happy to skip bread at dinner so I could ‘spend’ on a glass of wine.
Venture capital is debt. People don’t understand that.
My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She has heard more pitches than probably much of the world.
You can’t let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.
