Vinod Khosla Quotes

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared his focus on growth, technology, and company-building.

In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.

It takes vision and courage to create

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.