Julius Genachowski Quotes

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

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.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

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

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.