Best quotes by Ben Horowitz on Business
Checkout quotes by Ben Horowitz on Business
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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.
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‟ Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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‟ Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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‟ I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.
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‟ In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
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‟ As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
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