Ben Horowitz Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.
Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.
Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."
Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.
Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.
If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.
One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
a company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them.
you need to ask yourself, "If our company isn't good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
Ben: "If you need me, I will come home." Felicia: "No. Get the IPO done. There is no tomorrow for you and the company. I'll be fine.
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about - figuring out the right product is the innovator's job, not the customer's job.
The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp.
I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
As the great self-help coach Tony Robbins says, "If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low." If
If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.