Being Quote by Ben Horowitz

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you…

— Christopher Poole

If I don't act like a CEO, then I'll lose all the good people and that's a tough lesson for me to learn.

— Ryan Serhant

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

— Marc Randolph

In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.

— Zaza Pachulia

“As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.”

— Peter Thiel

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you…

— Ben Horowitz

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

— Mitch Kapor

All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers…

— Aneel Bhusri

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

— Yishan Wong

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

— Ben Horowitz

Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that…

— Glenn Kelman

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

— Ivan Glasenberg