Roelof Botha Quotes

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

SingTel has made substantial investments in markets with high growth potential in South Asia, such as India and Bangladesh.

A serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy is the encouragement of a hospitable climate for private investment in foreign nations.

American investors [abroad] receive an interest return higher by at least 2 percent on the average than they would receive from similar government or industrial investment within the United States …. It is obvious that they are taking a correspondingly greater risk. A considerable portion of this investment is in areas (as in parts of Latin-America) where political unrest is chronic and where legislation changes rapidly, or in areas in which there is a serious possibility of war or bankruptcy.

Western design houses have been exploring China in terms of investment for well over a decade.

If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan.

Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.

FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further.

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.

VW's future is increasingly being decided in China, Russia, India, the Americas and Southeast Asia. This is where we will generate most of our growth in future.