Ben Horowitz Quotes
born 1966 United States
Ben Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author.
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Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
Note to self: It's a good idea to ask, 'What am I not doing?'
It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
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.
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.
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. 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.