When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it.… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Remember that this is what separates the women from the girls. If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“This is not checkers; this is motherfuckin’ chess. Technology businesses tend to be extremely complex. The underlying technology moves, the competition moves,… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“how Loudcloud was born. Interestingly, the most lasting remnant of Loudcloud is the name itself, as the word cloud hadn’t been previously… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Yes, yoga may make your company a better place to work for people who like yoga. It may also be a great… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazon’s story in… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse.… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business,… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics,… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
“The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
“As painful as it might be, I knew that we had to get into the broader market in order to understand it well enough… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
“On my grandfather’s tombstone, you will find his favorite Marx quote: “Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
“Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money." Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?" Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
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… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
“No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. The first kind is one you can call when something… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
“The difference between being mediocre and magical is often the difference between letting people take creative risk and holding them too tightly accountable. Accountability… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share
