Top 81 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

About Ben Horowitz

These are some quotes by English author Ben Horowitz Businessman, who was born on June 13, 1966.

The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'

The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'

Ben Horowitz

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.

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.

Ben Horowitz

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

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

Ben Horowitz

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

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

Ben Horowitz

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.

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

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Ben Horowitz

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Ben Horowitz

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

Ben Horowitz

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