The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
BEN HOROWITZGroupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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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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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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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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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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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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