Quote

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

Vinod Khosla

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
Mind
Probability
Lows
Succeed
Success
Better

More quotes by Vinod Khosla

Image
Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Future is not extrapolation of past
Vinod Khosla
Image
If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
Vinod Khosla
Image
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.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
Vinod Khosla
Image
The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
Vinod Khosla
Image
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.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
Vinod Khosla
Image
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
Vinod Khosla
Image
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
Vinod Khosla
Image
The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
Vinod Khosla
Image
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.
Vinod Khosla
Image
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.
Vinod Khosla
Image
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Vinod Khosla
Image
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
Vinod Khosla
Image
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
Vinod Khosla
Image
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
Vinod Khosla