Leadership is hard to train on.
BEN HOROWITZNote to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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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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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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 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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There are no silver bullets.
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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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