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.
BEN HOROWITZPlanning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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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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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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