Business Quote by Ben Horowitz Download Open image “In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.” — Ben Horowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Company Decision making Decisions Get Goals Made Objectives Thin
“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
As you grow as a company, you get layers and hierarchy that, in theory, should make your decisions a lot better. They get reviewed,… — Scott Cook Copy Share Image
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work,… — Vernon Jordan Copy Share Image
“By embracing decision-focused planning, companies will almost certainly find that the quantity and quality of their decisions will improve.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them. — Sergio Marchionne Copy Share Image
“When decision-makers look at each part of a business in isolation they usually aren’t aware of how individual decisions can add up to unintended… — Matt Watkinson Copy Share Image
We are not the result of the choices we make, but our efforts are. The amount of effort one puts towards his or her… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision. — Jules Olitski 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
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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