126 Quotes by Vinod Khosla

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you’re doing and what you’re building is what’s important.

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none – that’s going to change.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else – there is no other way.

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.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it’s a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn’t get anywhere.

In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

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.

There’s no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.