You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
BEN HOROWITZThere are no silver bullets.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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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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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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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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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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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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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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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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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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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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 key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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