Esther Dyson Quotes

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

The internet has given pure equality to everyone. The cream rises to the top. It is the era of not take a job, but create your own job.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on.

They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.

Israel is a producer of growth.

The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.