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

Raise as little as you can to get you to something that you can show - plus maybe a quarter or two so you have a little bit of cushion - and then raise some more money. Raise as little - not as much - as you can because that's the most expensive equity you're going to sell.

If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.

I've never made a film that lost money.