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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

This is the age of disruption.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.

Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.