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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything.
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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.
— Ben Horowitz
I don't believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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.
— Ben Horowitz
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
— Ben Horowitz
Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.
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Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money. — Ben Horowitz
The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
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There are no silver bullets ...
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It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
— Ben Horowitz
Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
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The technique is marvelously described in the classic management text The One Minute Manager.
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One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
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I'm a huge believer in clarity.
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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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work long hours to advance the career of my
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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.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
— Ben Horowitz
a company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them.
— Ben Horowitz
you need to ask yourself, "If our company isn't good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?
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You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.
— Ben Horowitz
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
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DOGS AT WORK AND YOGA AREN'T CULTURE Startups
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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.
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You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
— Ben Horowitz
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
— Ben Horowitz
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
— Ben Horowitz
Note to self: It's a good idea to ask, What am I not doing?
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
— Ben Horowitz
Perks are good, but they are not culture.
— Ben Horowitz
If you don't have world-class strengths where you need them, you won't be a world-class company.
— Ben Horowitz
The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
— Ben Horowitz
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Rap helps me connect emotionally.
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Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
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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.
— Ben Horowitz
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
— Ben Horowitz
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.
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I describe the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp.
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MANAGING STRICTLY BY NUMBERS IS LIKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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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
— Ben Horowitz
If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
— Ben Horowitz
Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Don't punk out and don't quit.
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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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.
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you do nothing else, be like Bill and build a
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Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.
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How will your new job differ from your current job?
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I try to help people with management stuff a lot.
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