Best 21 quotes of John Doerr on MyQuotes

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.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

No conflict, no interest.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust, where falling is not a fireable offense- you know, a safe place to be yourself. And when you have that sort of structure and environment, and the right people, magic is around the corner.

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.