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During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.

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Douglas Leone
American - Businessman

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Pierre Omidyar

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Steve Jurvetson

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Gina Raimondo

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Sanjay Gupta

The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. This is a period of great business dislocation, but that means it's also the time to try new things. This will be a challenge for existing companies. But the behaviors of smart companies can be learned.

James A. Champy

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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Fred Wilson

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Evan Williams

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Brad Feld

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Jamie Dimon

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Stephen Covey

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

Ryan Holiday

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Carlos Slim

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Ryan Holmes

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

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