Ben Horowitz Quotes - Page 2

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• A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

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  Role Models, Needs, Roles

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• I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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  Believe, Statistics, Calculus

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• It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

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  Stress, Management, Daily Life

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• Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

  Ben Horowitz

  Years, Bars, Lasts

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• In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Practice, Decision

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

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• One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

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  People, Building, Great Things

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• The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.

  Ben Horowitz

  Moving, People, Important

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• Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

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  Book, Fighting, Enemy

  "Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. April 15, 2011.

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• The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

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  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

  "Ben Horowitz: Founders Should Learn How To Be CEO" by Boonsri Dickinson, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

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  Mistake, Communication, Ambition

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• The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.

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  Eye, Talking, Discipline

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• When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

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  Lenses, Looks, Want

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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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  Sheep, Venture, Lemmings

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• A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

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  Entrepreneur, Needs, Found

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• Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

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  Reverse, Built

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• Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

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  Emotional, Careers, Decision

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• I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

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  Believe, Weakness, I Believe

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• Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

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  Believe, Musical Genius, People

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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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  Running, Levels, Nonsense

  "Ben Horowitz: Founders Should Learn How To Be CEO" by Boonsri Dickinson, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

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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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  Effort, Knows

  Ben Horowitz (2014). “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

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  Running, Lonely, Decision

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". a16z.com. August 07, 2011.

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• There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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  Bullets, Silver Bullets, Silver

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• The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

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  Phones, People, Important

  "Maria Bartiromo interviews tech investor Ben Horowitz". USA Today Interview, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 20, 2012.

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• As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

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  Moving, Quality, Kind

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• The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

  Ben Horowitz

  Culture, Answers, Management

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