Milestones Quotes

“And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.”

“Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.”

“Don’t measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached.”

“A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is.”-“As David Cowan says, “Just focus on your top five—the rest is distraction.” The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit.”-“You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. ”-“Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated.”

“It's about "Moments," not Milestones.”

“Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.”

“I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.”

“Mistakes are your milestones, don't let them Stop you! Step up with them.”

“People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.”