Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. - Ben Horowitz 1 Share Now -
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know. - Ben Horowitz 2 Share Now -
When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations. - Ben Horowitz 3 Share Now -
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. - Ben Horowitz 4 Share Now -
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion. - Ben Horowitz 6 Share Now -
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. - Ben Horowitz 7 Share Now -
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. - Ben Horowitz 8 Share Now -
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. - Ben Horowitz 9 Share Now -
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. - Ben Horowitz 10 Share Now -
