Ben Horowitz Quotes - Page 3

• How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

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  Jobs, Skills, Training

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Don't punk out and don't quit.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Quitting

  "This Is The Most Difficult Skill For CEOs To Learn" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• La clave para ser líder es hacer una pausa.

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  Keys, Leader, Management

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• You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

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  Jobs, Dignity, Management

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• Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

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  Useless, Planning, Valuable

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• In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

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  Entrepreneur, Valleys, Company

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• Para tener éxito vendiendo un producto perdedor, hay que desarrollar técnicas de venta muy superiores. Además, hay que ser enormemente competitivo y estar increíblemente hambriento para sobrevivir en ese entorno.

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  Technique, Succeed, Losing

  "Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People" by Ben Horowitz, a16z.com. April 15, 2013.

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• For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

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  Majority, Example, Problem

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• Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

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  Successful, Entrepreneur, Yeah

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• It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

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  Goal, Quarters, Executives

  "Old People" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

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  Running, Mean, Ideas

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

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  Mark

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• La persona con la que trabajen será la que más conozcan. Así que si esa persona se va, van a decir: bueno, ¿debería haberme ido yo también? ¿Qué consiguieron ellos y cómo se compara eso con mi trato?

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  Should Have, Doe, Management

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• Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

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  Investment, Stage, Great Company

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• I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

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  Pensar, Gente, Dijo

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• Leadership is hard to train on.

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  Train, Hard

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• Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

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  Fin

  "Venture Capitalist Ben Horowitz On How Painful It Can Be To Run A Business". Interview with Matthew Lynley, www.buzzfeed.com. March 4, 2014.

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• It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

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  Want, Clear, Customers

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• If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

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  Trabajo, Hacer, Querer

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• In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

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  Goal, Decision, Made

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• If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.

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  Mistake, Team, Organization

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• The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

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  People, Management, Bigger

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• Your employees know each other better than they know you.

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  Management, Employee, Knows

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• Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

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  Jobs, Mistake, Decision

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• Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

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  Years, Management, Length

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