164 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about – figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

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.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.