Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
BEN HOROWITZYour employees know each other better than they know you.
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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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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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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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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