Your employees know each other better than they know you.
BEN HOROWITZRelationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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