I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
BEN HOROWITZAs companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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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 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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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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