Ben Horowitz Quotes

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Ben Horowitz

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MindProcessDesignSkillSkills

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.

John Burnside

WorkFamilyFatherColdOldYears

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.

Jennifer Sky

MeTheatreDoingGoMoreLine

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

John Morton

DailyHistoryStartTryingNever

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Ann Landers

GoodMannersNothingClassPetty

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Robyn Hitchcock

IdeasDoingWantCommitteeBehind

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

Michael W. Smith

FamilyEvenThoughOtherCertain

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

TeacherBestStrategyKnowTeachers

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

ManHardshipsPhysicalKnownPassed

It's incredibly important to be - once you do have a product - acutely observational about the trends.

Julia Hartz

YouImportantProductTrendsOnce

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Jason Mraz

LoveGoalEveryoneShowToo

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

LifeInspirationalWaitingGoAccept

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe

PeopleGenderCountryFairEthnicity

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