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Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz
English Businessman
Born: Jun 13, 1966
Business Company Good People Will You
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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. Ben Horowitz
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know. Ben Horowitz
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The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment. Ben Horowitz
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People say the most important thing is building a world-class team. Ben Horowitz
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Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end. Ben Horowitz
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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. Ben Horowitz
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As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail. Ben Horowitz
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From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model. Ben Horowitz
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You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move. Ben Horowitz
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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. Ben Horowitz
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Leadership is hard to train on. Ben Horowitz
Leadership Train Hard
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. Ben Horowitz
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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. Ben Horowitz
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In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong. Ben Horowitz
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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. Ben Horowitz
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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. Ben Horowitz
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Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.' Ben Horowitz
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I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it. Ben Horowitz
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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. Ben Horowitz
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I'm a huge believer in clarity. Ben Horowitz
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One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals. Ben Horowitz
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Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in. Ben Horowitz
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I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story. Ben Horowitz
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin. Ben Horowitz
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When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple. Ben Horowitz
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When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company. Ben Horowitz
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