I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
BEN HOROWITZNote to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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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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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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