John Doerr Quotes

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• Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.
• If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
• No conflict, no interest.
• The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,
• There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.
• You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.
• How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.
• Change the way we teach; Empower teachers
• If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.
• Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
• It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very…
• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way.…
• Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.
• People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
• The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
• We all know about blogs and how big they are.
• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
• It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous…
• There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express,…
• Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

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