John Doerr Quotes

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

  John Doerr

  Team, Winning, Ideas

  Post Seed Conference, vator.tv. January 5, 2016.

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• Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

  John Doerr

  Team, Challenges, Building

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

  John Doerr

  Skills, Long, People

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

  John Doerr

  Next, Fund, Best Things

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• Act now. Act with speed.

  John Doerr

  Speed

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

  John Doerr

  Thinking, Entrepreneur

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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.

  John Doerr

  Believe, Failing, Reason

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• No conflict, no interest.

  John Doerr

  Conflict, Interest

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• People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

  John Doerr

  Technology, People, Community

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

  John Doerr

  Design, Today, Great Design

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

  John Doerr

  Venture, Accelerate

  "Betting on a Green Future". www.wired.com. April 11, 2006.

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

  John Doerr

  Technology, Opportunity, Green

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• Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

  John Doerr

  Teacher, Empowering, Way

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

  John Doerr

  Vanity, Reader, Wells

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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 tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

  John Doerr

  Rights, Intellectual, Growth

  "Tech leaders: Feds should push broadband" by Patrick Thibodeau, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2002.

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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 very much money, but it was growing.

  John Doerr

  Running, Google, Development

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

  John Doerr

  Next, Wave, Users

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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 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

  Mean, Ties, Molecules

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• 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

  Thinking, Identity, Trends

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

  John Doerr

  Venture Capitalists, Venture, Danger

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• 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

  Engineering, Degrees, Cards

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

  John Doerr

  Jobs, Company

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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.

  John Doerr

  Business, Climate, Economy

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• We all know about blogs and how big they are.

  John Doerr

  Bigs, Blogs, Knows

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