Vinod Khosla Quotes

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • College
  • End

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
  • Change

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Man
  • Freedom

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Service
  • Test

• In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • American
  • Innocent

• I get laid on purpose. I can't sleep before a competition and I'm up all night, anyway, so instead of staring at the ceiling I figure I might as well find somebody and fuck... we had girls backstage giving head, then all of us went out and I won. It didn't bother me at all; in fact, I went out there feeling like King Kong.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Night
  • Giving

• When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Clothes

• The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Children
  • America
  • Law

• You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Hip Hop
  • Dancer

• My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Giving
  • Ability
  • Succeed