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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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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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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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
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It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
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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.
