164 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

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

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.

One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

Leadership is hard to train on.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

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

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.'