John Doerr Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets. — John Doerr

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

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers — John Doerr

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

Act now. Act with speed. — John Doerr

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

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

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

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team. — 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

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

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

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers. — John Doerr

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

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

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

If the reason you're taking on a mission is for the money you'll make, I believe you'll fail. — John Doerr