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.’
BEN HOROWITZEvery 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.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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There are no silver bullets.
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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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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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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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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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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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