Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
BEN HOROWITZIt’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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 a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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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 time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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