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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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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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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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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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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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It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
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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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