Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent… — Vinod Khosla Education Copy Share Image
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The combination of brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit should lead us to a safer and more secure future. — Vinod Khosla Brilliant ideas Copy Share Image
Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know. — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch. — Vinod Khosla Healthcare Copy Share Image
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between needs and requirements for grid-based electricity versus those for distributed rural homes or remote locations, or even… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an… — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
First, you should take money and have plenty of money fueling your tank. But money becomes dangerous if you assume it's going… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The bulk of the utility industry today believes that coal and nuclear are the only solutions we have. Nuclear is greener but… — Vinod Khosla Climate Copy Share Image
Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
You take something like RingCentral. It doesn't need any more money or financing: it is relatively mature, recurring revenue business - not… — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change. — Vinod Khosla Body Copy Share Image
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms, — Vinod Khosla Algorithms Copy Share Image
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads. — Vinod Khosla Climate Copy Share Image
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new. — Vinod Khosla Care Copy Share Image
I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world. — Vinod Khosla Chance Copy Share Image
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true. — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market. — Vinod Khosla Climate Copy Share Image
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
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… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I challenge anybody to claim that clean tech done right is a disaster. — Vinod Khosla Challenge Copy Share Image
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school. — Vinod Khosla Doctors Copy Share Image
One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Hopefully, I can advise entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes. But you can never be sure if you're trying something new and unreasonable. — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
