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Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

~Ben Horowitz

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The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.

~Ben Horowitz

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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.

~Ben Horowitz

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You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

~Ben Horowitz

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You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

~Ben Horowitz

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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.

~Ben Horowitz

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If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

~Ben Horowitz

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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.

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Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

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The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

~Ben Horowitz

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Businessman

Born: June 13th, 1966

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