164 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating.

It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’

Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’

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

The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup...

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.