Quotes by Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Entrepreneur

Found

Needs

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Needs

Role Models

Roles

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Baby

Hours

Motivation

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Black

Loyal

Wife

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.

Inspirational

Motivational

Quitting

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.

Careers

Decision

Emotional

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.

Choices

Courageous

Decision

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.

Example

Majority

Problem

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start: Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

Decision

Jobs

Mistake

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

People

Problem

Smart

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Ambition

Baby

Bars

Believe

Better Off

Bigger

Black

Building

Bullets

Calculus

Careers

Choices

Clarity

Clear

Communication

Company

Courageous

Critical Decisions

Customers

Daily Life

Decision

Discipline

Doe

Effort

Emotional

Employee

Entrepreneur

Example

Eye

Focus

Found

Goal

Great Things

Growth

Hours

I Believe

Ideas

Important

Inspirational

Jobs

Keys

Knowing Nothing

Knowledge Gained

Knows

Lasts

Lemmings

Length

Lonely

Loyal

Made

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Quotes by Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.

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.

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.

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.

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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