A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
BEN HOROWITZRelationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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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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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.
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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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