23 Quotes by Heidi Roizen

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.

Women as consumers are a very powerful force.

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.

The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.

Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.

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.

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.

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 think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.