John Doerr Quotations

But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.

We think these things can get to the world in scale in 2007.

We always prefer that the money be used to build the company,

We're thrilled Roger is coming back home to the Valley.

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.

They must be offered at universally affordable prices to the developing world.

The remarkable thing to me is they've established quite an unimaginable collection of great brands. Not just images, but brands.

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.

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.

Cafe Press doesn't offer custom postage, just for starters. There are just not many people approved by the U.S. Postal Service to make custom postage.

No conflict, no interest.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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.

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'.

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

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

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.

Act now. Act with speed.

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

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

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

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

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.