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I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.
Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.
My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.
In a dream, a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house.
One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.
Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.
Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.
What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.
What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?
I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.
I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.
In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.
We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?
I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?
When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry.
My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.
What we have noticed at YouTube is that many users who have uploaded infringing content are unaware that it's illegal to do so.
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.
There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.
A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
I don't wanna be yelling all my life. How loud did I have to yell to say that Jay-Z was the man and the best rapper of all time?
It's incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another's dude's pockets and have that matter and argue about that.