6 Quotes by Mark Booth

Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yield the highest returns. It would have been a mistake to invest substantially when it was apparent that we would not be receiving great returns.

Given the fast take-up rate, combined with subscriber satisfaction, which scores 25% higher than for the analog service, we are targeting 1 million homes to be subscribing to Sky Digital by October.

We haven't been burned too badly. It will take three to five years for us to deliver the value, both financially and strategically, to our investors, and I think we're off to a great start.

We are disappointed we did not get the outcome we first expected, but we were very selective, and I'm glad we didn't do it on a broader scale.

Whole dimensions lie glistening on the dark side of even the most dull and commonplace thought.

The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What’s best for me and what is worst for me, the thing I most ought to do and the thing I most ought not to do, look very much alike. In my heart of hearts I may know which is which – but then a spirit of perversity makes me want to choose wrongly. Great psychic perturbation always surrounds great beauty.