You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
BEN HOROWITZI believe in strength over lack of weakness.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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There are no silver bullets.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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.
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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 right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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