Ben Horowitz Quotes

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

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.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

Don't punk out and don't quit.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

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.

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.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.