A Quote by Emily Chang

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

Emily Chang

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Emily Chang
American - Journalist
Born: August 11, 1980

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Philip Kotler

I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world.

Steve Jurvetson

Chinese companies - telecommunications and technology companies - are some of the best internationally. Taobao, WeChat, Huawei - not only are they large companies, but they're also very technologically advanced.

Lee Hsien Loong

The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

Joe Kaeser

There are black companies that are very active in the economy, that are growing and not on the basis of mergers and acquisitions, but because of putting new money into their particular companies and, therefore, their particular sectors. Indeed, if they didn't do that, they would collapse as companies.

Thabo Mbeki

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Gordon Parks

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Yvon Chouinard

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Fred Wilson

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Rebecca Enonchong

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Vinod Khosla

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Andy Jassy

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Alex Berenson

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.