Business Quotes by Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

— Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

— Ben Horowitz

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

— Ben Horowitz

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

— Ben Horowitz

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

— Ben Horowitz

“If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?”

— Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

— Ben Horowitz

“Being a good company is an end in itself.”

— Ben Horowitz

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

— Ben Horowitz

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

— Ben Horowitz

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get…

— Ben Horowitz

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of…

— Ben Horowitz

“The purpose of process is communication. If there are five people in your company, you don’t need process, because you can just…

— Ben Horowitz

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

— Ben Horowitz

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

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

— Ben Horowitz

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on…

— Ben Horowitz

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind…

— Ben Horowitz

“Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you…

— Ben Horowitz

“Remember that this is what separates the women from the girls. If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If…

— Ben Horowitz

“This is not checkers; this is motherfuckin’ chess. Technology businesses tend to be extremely complex. The underlying technology moves, the competition moves,…

— Ben Horowitz

“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

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

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you…

— Ben Horowitz

“We would have won, but the other guys gave the deal away.” “The customer selected us technically and thinks we are the…

— Ben Horowitz

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match...…

— Ben Horowitz

The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself…

— Ben Horowitz

“Me: “Why does competitor X have five times your revenue?” Entrepreneur: “We are using partners and OEMs, because we can’t build a…

— Ben Horowitz

“Most business relationships either become too tense to tolerate or not tense enough to be productive after a while. Either people challenge…

— Ben Horowitz

“When founders come in to pitch our firm—one as the CEO and the other as president—the conversation often goes like this: “Who…

— Ben Horowitz

“If you investigate companies that have failed, you will find that many employees knew about the fatal issues long before those issues…

— Ben Horowitz

“The most important thing to understand is that the job of a big company executive is very different from the job of…

— Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

— Ben Horowitz

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good…

— Ben Horowitz

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

— Ben Horowitz

“Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do. Because in…

— Ben Horowitz

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

— Ben Horowitz

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

“If you run a company, you will experience overwhelming psychological pressure to be overly positive. Stand up to the pressure, face your…

— Ben Horowitz

I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested…

— Ben Horowitz