Ben Horowitz Quotes

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: vision, decisions, 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...

Ben Horowitz

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...

Ben Horowitz

Tags: mind, skills, skill

About Author

Benjamin Abraham Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, a book about startups, and What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture.

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

Ben Horowitz

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

Ben Horowitz

Tags: courage, smart, company

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: challenge, company

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Ben Horowitz

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: trust, know, you

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal....

Ben Horowitz

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal....

Ben Horowitz

Tags: technology, world, people

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

Ben Horowitz

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: job, me, people

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 m...

Ben Horowitz

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 m...

Ben Horowitz

Tags: learning, courage, decisions

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: courage, experience

Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: train, hard

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's l...

Ben Horowitz

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's l...

Ben Horowitz

Tags: management, book, advice

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.

Ben Horowitz

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.

Ben Horowitz

Tags: broken, honest, you