High Stakes Gamble Quotes

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

I can go back and fall on my head any time.

In the absence of hard intelligence, covert action is a fool’s game.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

The moment a spinner gets turn he becomes dangerous.

We were going to do 'Reno 911!: New York, New York, Las Vegas,' which was like a 'Die Hard' set not in New York, but in the New York, New York casino in Las Vegas. We were really excited about being locked into the one casino and doing a bad action movie.

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.