All Ben Horowitz Quotes
- 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
- Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become… Bit
- The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company. Company
- There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing… All
- Don't punk out and don't quit. Inspirational
- The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the… All
- How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A… Combined
- A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself. Inspirational
- In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often… All
- For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up… Automated
- The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. Bad
- A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model. Act
- The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has… Acquire
- As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will… Big
- Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions. C E
- Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision. Any