Ben Horowitz Quotes

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you kno...

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Leadership is hard to train on.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody...

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

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

Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broke...

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I ne...

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness...

There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where...

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. O...

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communic...

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once yo...