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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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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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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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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.
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