If we’d been older or known better, Bill and I might have been put off by the task in front of us. But we were young and green enough to believe that we just might pull it off.
-Paul Allen on his first project to write a language for a microprocessor with his partner, Bill Gates, in his memoir, Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft.
Categories: Ambition, Bill Gates, Entrepreneurship, Green, Microsoft, Naivete, Youth
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posted on November 27th, 2011 with no comments.
We currently live in the most exciting economic times man has ever known. Today’s “Entrepreneurial Revolution” is overhwleming the “Industrial Revolution” of the late 18th and 19th centuries in terms of tapping into and unleashing man’s inherent ability to create, innovate, and prosper.
-Raymond J. Keating and Thomas N. Edmonds on page 1 of U.S. By the Numbers: Figuring What’s Left, Right, and Wrong With America State By State.
Categories: Business, Economics, Entrepreneurial Revolution, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Revolution, Innovation
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posted on February 9th, 2009 with no comments.