Vinod Khosla Quotes

The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.

Vinod Khosla

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• No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Company
  • Leave
  • Citizen

• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Company
  • motivation
  • German

• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Now
  • Disney

• Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Start

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Better
  • Company

• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Focus
  • Priority
  • Strategy

• For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Boxing

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • School
  • Company

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Friend
  • Best

• Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Company
  • Build

• Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).

  

  Elliott Sober
  • True
  • False
  • Experiments

• When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Details
  • Give Away
  • Moved Away

• The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Company
  • Strategy
  • Experiments