When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
BEN HOROWITZI don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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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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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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