Vinod Khosla Quotes
Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'
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We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
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I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.
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Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.
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We’ll start with the assumption that we all want to be effective, both within the organization and within ourselves. And let’s define effective as creating the results we want long-term and with sustainability. To be effective, we need to be clear about our mission, vision, and values.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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You’ve got to remember what your priorities are. When you’re playing, what you do on the field is the most important thing.
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Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.
