Vinod Khosla Quotes

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

It's quantity, not quality.

We only value something when we measure it.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

It's clear to me now that Ethereum is the new currency of the Internet. It's way ahead of where Paypal was in its day, and it's much more exciting to its customers than Paypal ever was.

If the cryptocurrency market overall or a digital asset is solving a problem, it's going to drive some value.

Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokenized. It will create a deeper market with improved price discovery and should increase the value of those assets.

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.

Valuations are always much-debated. I try to center on what is the value to us. Is it solving a problems for us? If it is, we find a way to proceed. If the valuation has been overhyped on something and it doesn't make sense, we won't. It's very simple for me. I tend not to worry too much about the valuation. It's really what the value is to us.

I feel that as long as I'm an asset and not a liability I'm still loving the game as much as I ever have.

I have already released my financials, which are massive, and, by the way, which showed a tremendous company. It's over $10 billion in net worth that I have built with a very, very small starter loan years ago.

When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more earnings. EVA has ideas about cost of capital that make no sense. Of course, if a company generates high returns on capital and can maintain this over time, it will do well. But the mental system as a whole does not work.

In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.

Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.