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China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Around Business Business People China Entrepreneurs Hope Improve Insight Lives Many More More People People Poor Poor People Put Seek Solutions Successful Talents Them Will Work World I Hope That

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When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

~Bill Maris

Topics: Build Entrepreneurs Optimize Price Relationships Trying You

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I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

~Bill Maris

Topics: Clear Companies Decide Entrepreneurs Get Good Google Incentive Investments Make Minority Our Paid Sell Shareholders Very I Can

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We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.

~Bill Maris

Topics: Another Change Change The World Entrepreneurs Founders Going Google Huge Invest Lever Lots Million One Way Place Powerful Start Try Ups Ventures Way Which World Year

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We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

~Bill Maris

Topics: Always Capable Disregard Easy Enthusiastic Entrepreneurs Find Healthy Highly Impossible Looking Technical Who

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Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.

~Bill Maris

Topics: Academic Entrepreneurs Gather Job Knowledge Many People Read Research Startups Venture Ventures Whose

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My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I?

~Bill Rancic

Topics: Best Best Friend Business Companies Critical Entrepreneurs Experiences Friend Got Guy Jerry Life Lot Meet Meeting Most My Life Now Owned Parents People Realized Started Were Who Why

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The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.

~Bill Rancic

Topics: Along Become Ego Entrepreneurs Forget Get Got Great Great Team Helped Lots Loyal Many Me Most Owners People Remember Successful Team Tell Them Way Were Who You

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Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

~Bing Gordon

Topics: About Enjoy Entrepreneurs Lot Make Move Move On Once One Thing People Progress Say Serial Should Smart Smart People Sufficient Tend Then Thing Things Thinking Time Until You

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One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

~Bing Gordon

Topics: Complicated Discussion Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs Get Going Good Great Know Managers One Thing Only Say Skill The One Thing Then Thing Whole

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