There are no silver bullets.
BEN HOROWITZThere are no silver bullets.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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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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