John Doerr Quotes

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. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

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.

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

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

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 spur to the growth of broadband networks.

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

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

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 much money, but it was growing.

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

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

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.

Act now. Act with speed.

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

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

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

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, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.