164 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

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

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.

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.

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that - it's hard to get someone to follow you if they feel like you hate 'em.

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.

I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?