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“The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,”

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Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

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If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

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It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass,…

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Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

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Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.

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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…

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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

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There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

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If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

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It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a…

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If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.

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Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the…

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Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

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“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the…

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“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality…

Pierre Bourdieu

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Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

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Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

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“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,…

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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

Friedrich August von Hayek

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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

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“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…

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