20 Inspirational Quotes By Vinod Khosla, The Co-Founder Of Sun Microsystems, Which Will Dispel Your Fears Of Failure.
Vinod Khosla is an American businessman of Indian origin who co-founded Sun Microsytems, Inc. The company was responsible for development of Java programming language, Solaris Unix and the Network File System.
The billionaire has also been a part of many other businesses like the venture capital firm Khosla Ventures. As co-founder of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Khosla engages in training entrepreneurs. His go to mantra for budding businesses is that only a willingness to fail will help us develop an ability to succeed. Here's an incident when the business conglomerate speaks about success and failures.
Speaking to group of aspiring entrepreneurs, Khosla asked, "How many people here know a company called Sun Microsystems? How many people here know a company called the Data Dump? Not a single hand. "
Then he went on to explain, "My point is the following, McNeiley and I started Sun - everybody knows the company. We also three months before we started a company called the Data Dump. That failed. Nobody remembers failures. In fact my point is success matters. Failure is inconsequential - yet what I hear most people do is not do things because they are afraid of failure.
"People's fear of failure restricts them from doing most of what they can do. I like to say most people are limited by what they think they can do not by what they can do."
Here's a collection of inspiring quotes by Vinod Khosla.
The billionaire has also been a part of many other businesses like the venture capital firm Khosla Ventures. As co-founder of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Khosla engages in training entrepreneurs. His go to mantra for budding businesses is that only a willingness to fail will help us develop an ability to succeed. Here's an incident when the business conglomerate speaks about success and failures.
Speaking to group of aspiring entrepreneurs, Khosla asked, "How many people here know a company called Sun Microsystems? How many people here know a company called the Data Dump? Not a single hand. "
Then he went on to explain, "My point is the following, McNeiley and I started Sun - everybody knows the company. We also three months before we started a company called the Data Dump. That failed. Nobody remembers failures. In fact my point is success matters. Failure is inconsequential - yet what I hear most people do is not do things because they are afraid of failure.
"People's fear of failure restricts them from doing most of what they can do. I like to say most people are limited by what they think they can do not by what they can do."
Here's a collection of inspiring quotes by Vinod Khosla.
