Vinod Khosla Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
-
I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
-
We must defend what we have achieved so far.
-
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
-
As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
-
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
-
If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
-
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
-
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
-
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
-
I value my privacy a lot.
-
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
-
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'
-
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
-
I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.
-
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
-
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
-
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
-
Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
-
Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.
-
When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it's about who can bid the highest. There's no personal interest. It's a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn't like much.
-
You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur.
-
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.
-
Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
