Vinod Khosla Quotes

How would you compete against yourself?

Vinod Khosla

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• It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Long
  • Way
  • Back

• My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Said

• I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Music
  • Learning
  • King

• Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I was 23 and saw my face on the side of the big T4 bus at V Festival and almost fainted.

  

  Jameela Jamil

• If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

  

  Edward Grey
  • World
  • America
  • Future

• Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

  

  Bethany McLean
  • People

• Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Smart

• Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Life
  • Great

• I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Black

• I'm scared of needles.

  

  Dwyane Wade

• I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Guy
  • Water

• I went to Bruges for a weekend away from London. I was supposed to be meeting a girl there the next day. It was a tentative arrangement. From the moment I saw the town, I thought, 'This place is just so cinematic, so gorgeous.' Every corner seemed to offer a new image.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Girl
  • Weekend

• I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

  

  Jane Green
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Live

• I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

  

  Martin Cruz Smith
  • Time
  • Period

• We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Hope

• We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

  

  Hassanal Bolkiah
  • Foreign skills

• Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Born
  • Possibility
  • Deeds

• My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.

  

  Harry Triguboff
  • Profit
  • Buildings
  • Properties

• Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

  

  Mike White
  • Thinking
  • Awards
  • Huge

• How would you compete against yourself?

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Compete