164 Quotes by Ben Horowitz

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

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

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

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

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.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.