It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
BEN HOROWITZI believe in strength over lack of weakness.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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