John Doerr Quotes

John Doerr Quotes.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the rig

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
John Doerr
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.
John Doerr
There’s never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.
John Doerr
Change the way we teach; Empower teachers
John Doerr
How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that’s good.
John Doerr
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
John Doerr
If you can’t invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
John Doerr
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that’s clearly a vanity phenomenon.
John Doerr
If we don’t embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won’t just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.
John Doerr
Green technologies – going green – is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
John Doerr
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.
John Doerr
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the ‘slow maybe’.
John Doerr
Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.
John Doerr
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
John Doerr
Act now. Act with speed.
John Doerr
They’ve found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world’s great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
John Doerr
No conflict, no interest.
John Doerr
We all know about blogs and how big they are.
John Doerr
You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.
John Doerr
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.
John Doerr
Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.
John Doerr
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
John Doerr
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.
John Doerr
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.
John Doerr
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.
John Doerr
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.
John Doerr