There are no silver bullets.
BEN HOROWITZAs a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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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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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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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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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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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.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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