My father said these words to me more than 35 years ago, and they ring in my ears today.
Both China and America now face enormous challenges in economic recovery and sustainable development. Yet, from these daunting challenges spring a multitude of market opportunities for innovators and investors.
In America, “green tech,” education services and health care are providing entrepreneurs and investors with many ways to innovate and grow new markets, while in China, high speed rail, “3-screen convergence” (mobile phones, televisions and computers) and consumer markets are leading the way.
The market opportunities are everywhere in the heartlands of both countries; at universities and research institutes, on factory floors and construction sites, in music studios and movie soundstages.
The key to success is understanding the challenges and assembling the human and physical resources to address them in a financially justifiable and meaningful way.
Beyond that, nothing but the limits of our imaginations and willingness to work hard stands in the way between where we are today and where we want to be.
