Ben Horowitz Quotes & Sayings
81 most famous Ben Horowitz quotes and sayings (businessman). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.”
“Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.”
“Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.”
“The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.”
“A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.”
“As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.”
“In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.”
“I try to help people with management stuff a lot.”
“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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