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Vinod Khosla Inspirational Quotes (64)

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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
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It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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Screw up often but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
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