diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f9f6698f..fb8ce4998 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ your PATH. You probably want to modify your .bashrc file to incude the
 following (this assumes the CUDA Toolkit was installed in /usr/local/cuda):
 
 	export CUDA_INSTALL_PATH=/usr/local/cuda
-	export PATH=$CUDA_INSTALL_PATH/bin
+	export PATH=$CUDA_INSTALL_PATH/bin:$PATH
 
 If running applications which use cuDNN or cuBLAS: