All Quotes by Ben Horowitz
“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 my intelligence.”
“Leadership is hard to train on.”
“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.”
“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.”
“By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.”
“In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.”
“The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.”
“As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.”
“It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.”
“It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.”