I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
BEN HOROWITZLeadership is hard to train on.
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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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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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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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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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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