All Ben Horowitz Quotes
- You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one. Believe
- As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried. Baby
- If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want? Inspirational
- Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless. Plan
- Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing? Ask
- One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire. Amazing
- I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus. Believe
- 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. All
- 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… Answer
- Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity. 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… All
- Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Book
- 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… Ahead
- In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. Ceo
- 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… Any
- 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… Advances
- Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. Billionaire
- You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it. Call
- When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?' Go
- What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. Capitalist
- Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse. Better
- Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings Beyonc
- You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup... Beatles
- A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more. Always Found
- There are no silver bullets... Bullets