John Doerr famous quotes

03-25-2025

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.
-- John Doerr

#Team #Challenges #Building
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.
-- John Doerr

#Team #Winning #Ideas
If the reason youâ€™re taking on a mission is for the money youâ€™ll make, I believe youâ€™ll fail.
-- John Doerr

#Believe #Failing #Reason
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
There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.
-- John Doerr

#Venture
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.
-- John Doerr

#Venture #Danger #Capitalist
Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.
-- John Doerr

#Thinking #Entrepreneur
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
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
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
We all know about blogs and how big they are.
-- John Doerr

#Bigs
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
-- John Doerr

#Next #Wave #Users
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
If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
-- John Doerr

#Next #Fund
No conflict, no interest.
-- John Doerr

#Conflict #Interest
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
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
-- John Doerr

#Technology #Opportunity #Green
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
Change the way we teach; Empower teachers
-- John Doerr

#Teacher #Empowering #Way
How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.
-- John Doerr

#Jobs #Company
You have to have great design to be competitive in todayâ€™s markets.
-- John Doerr

#Design #Today #Great Design
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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