“The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.” DoeImportantLastsEmpiresBankruptcyGreat Empires Author:Juan Enriquez
“When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.” PeopleGivingHeartCountryGovernmentInterestLeaderGiving UpEuropeIndiaIraqAfghanistanEgyptBeing A LeaderJust Give Up Author:Juan Enriquez
“Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.” ThinkingWould BeAbleFiguresChangedIndiaChinaAsiaSoutheast Asia Author:Juan Enriquez
“If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.” IfsMenDifferentRevolutionDiedGreenStatuesDifferent PlaceWandsGreen Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.” WorldEnoughThis WorldProduceHugeIndiaChinaExcessAsiaFamineCaloriesSoutheast Asia Author:Juan Enriquez
“China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.” WayYearsLittlesImportantFoundEconomyGrowingIndiaFollowingChinaDebtMessBest Of The Best Author:Juan Enriquez
“One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.” WorldWholeAmericaWorryAwarenessPopulationCanadaLatinMexicoLatin AmericaHispanic Author:Juan Enriquez
“When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.” ThinkingSaidImportantCountryHelpingSimplePowerfulGrewGrew UpValleysMentorKoreaSiliconSilicon ValleyCambridgeTaiwanSimple Thoughts Author:Juan Enriquez
“Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.” ReasonBigsJobsCompanyEconomyEconomicAccountsReason WhyVentureOutputVenture Capital Author:Juan Enriquez