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Ben Horowitz Quotes

English - Businessman | June 13, 1966 -

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.

Business Perspective People Conflict

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

Decisions Fast Employee Company Make

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.

Help You Person Done Will Going

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.

Vision Architecture Decisions You

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

Nobody Natural Actually

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

Education Time People Internet Many

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.

Today Pressure Short You Price Miss

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Value Better Worth Company Clearly

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

Business Understand Something Board

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

Good Company Own Interest Incredible

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

People Management Help Try Stuff

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

Good Business Think End Long Said

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