Ben Horowitz Quotes

Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, investor, and author. Known for his insights on leadership and business, he has made a significant impact in the tech industry and venture capital, co-founding influential companies and sharing his knowledge through his writings and mentorship.

Leadership is hard to train on.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, an... -Ben Horowitz

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

As a company grows, communication becomes its bigg... -Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

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. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

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.

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