I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
BEN HOROWITZIf you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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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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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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