Quotes by Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz

American businessman, investor, blogger, and author

Lived from: 1966 -

Category: Business and entrepreneurs | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 13 june 1966

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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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  • In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
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  • In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
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  • In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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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.
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  • John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
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  • Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.
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  • Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
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  • Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.
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  • Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
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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.
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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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  • 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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  • Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
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  • Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
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  • The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
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  • The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
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