164 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.

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.

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.