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"Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century."
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"It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!"

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"You attract poverty when you lack value for time."

"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there."

"Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win."

"Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth."

"All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you."
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"People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age."

"It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks."

"Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon."

"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."

"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing."

"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."

"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."

"They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible."
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