All Ben Horowitz Quotes
- In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin. Company
- I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship… Begin
- As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge. Becomes
- Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an… Appropriate
- A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity. Based
- One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded. Imagine
- 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, hiring… Ability
- People say the most important thing is building a world-class team. Building
- Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. Business
- When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies. Companies
- To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry… Addition
- Leadership is hard to train on. Hard
- Business ends up being very dynamic and situational. Business
- Rap helps me connect emotionally. Connect
- I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will… Areas
- 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 arise… All
- It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on. Budgets