Ben Horowitz Quotes

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• You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
• As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
• If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
• Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
• Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
• One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
• I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
• It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
• Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention…
• Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
• Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all…
• Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication…
• In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at doing something than the current…
• Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a…
• Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
• You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
• When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'
• What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

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