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Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Any Better Decision Even Often Than Wrong Wrong Decision

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People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Building Important Important Thing Most Most Important Thing People People Say Say Team The Most Important Thing World-Class

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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

Topics: Always Because Between Ceos Choice Choices Company Consequences Decisions Difficult Doing Easy Everybody Excuses Faces Fold Get Life Lonely Making Plentiful Popular Right Run Wrong You

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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Become Bit Ceo Choices Company Correct Courageous Cowardly Decision Easy Every Every Time Hard Lead Make More Time Will Wrong Wrong Decision You

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Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

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Topics: Ceo How Job Knows Learn Lonely Nobody Something Very You

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The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

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Topics: Big Commitment Company Founder Knowledge Really Running Things Two Value

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You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: About Because Going Got Lot Make Mistakes Move Next Them Thinking Worry You Your

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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.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Big Business Cause Charge Company Conflict Decision-Making Delay Depending Gets Information Informs Massive People Perspective Prism Through Two Two People Vary View Which Will You Your

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

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Topics: Ceo Courage Decisions Experience Far Found Important Intelligence More Most Tested Than The Most Important

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One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Group Individuals Never People Person Stupid Why

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Businessman

Born: June 13th, 1966

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