Ben Horowitz Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Company

• In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Practice, Decision

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

• In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Levels, Nonsense

  "Ben Horowitz: Founders Should Learn How To Be CEO" by Boonsri Dickinson, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

• 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.

  Ben Horowitz

  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.

• 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

  Running, Lonely, Decision

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". a16z.com. August 07, 2011.

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