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.
BEN HOROWITZYeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
-
-
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
BEN HOROWITZ -
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
BEN HOROWITZ -
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
BEN HOROWITZ -
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
BEN HOROWITZ -
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
BEN HOROWITZ -
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
BEN HOROWITZ -
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.
BEN HOROWITZ -
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.
BEN HOROWITZ -
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
BEN HOROWITZ -
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
BEN HOROWITZ -
There are no silver bullets.
BEN HOROWITZ -
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
BEN HOROWITZ