The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself… — 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
“Some things that you want to encourage will be quantifiable, and some will not. If you report on the quantitative goals and… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The technique is marvelously described in the classic management text The One Minute Manager.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Every time I read a management or self-help book, I find myself saying, “That’s fine, but that wasn’t really the hard thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
