Quote by Ben Horowitz Download Open image ““If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO. Jason”” — Ben Horowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The best CEOs I know all look for disruptions, interruptions, little risks, and existential risks and spend time mitigating them periodically. It’s not sexy… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“Their CEO at the time remarked, ‘When you begin to take for granted that you can just execute, you become a little bit careless.’… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“You get the best people, you build them into the best managers in the industry, and you accept the fact that some of them… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“CEOs face this choice all the time. Should they confront their shortcomings or should they create a world where they have none? Lee Iacocca… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to like the idea of being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. It’s harder to like the hours, the responsibility, and… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Either you are the CEO of your life, or an employee in someone else's life.” — Fady Seleem 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