Vinod Khosla Quotes

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

I don't care about age very much.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.