A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
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. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
I think that business book reporting, it’s all Jim Collins, it’s the story of victory; it’s success bias over and over again. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
You have to be responsible when you’re running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
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. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
