Vinod Khosla Quotes
I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
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The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
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We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.
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In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.
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I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
