One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that - it's hard to get… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work… — 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
With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's… — 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
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
Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and… — 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
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because… — 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
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
The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible. — 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
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat… — 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
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask,… — 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
I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead… — 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 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
