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Ben Horowitz

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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  • fredyphje citiraoпре 8 година
    My father turned to me and said, “Son, do you know what’s cheap?”
    Since I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, I replied, “No, what?”
    “Flowers. Flowers are really cheap. But do you know what’s expensive?” he asked.
    Again, I replied, “No, what?”
    He said, “Divorce.”
  • Gabit Zhje citiraoпре 8 година
    People always ask me, “What’s the secret to being a successful CEO?” Sadly, there is no secret, but if there is one skill that stands out, it’s the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves.
  • Gabit Zhje citiraoпре 8 година
    If you investigate companies that have failed, you will find that many employees knew about the fatal issues long before those issues killed the company. If the employees knew about the deadly problems, why didn’t they say something? Too often the answer is that the company culture discouraged the spread of bad news, so the knowledge lay dormant until it was too late to act.
    A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them. A company that covers up its problems frustrates everyone involved. The resulting action item for CEOs: Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.
  • Odrine Belotje citiralaпре 7 година
    most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.
  • Odrine Belotje citiralaпре 7 година
    . Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares;
  • Gabit Zhje citiraoпре 8 година
    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.
  • svitertwitterje citiralaпре 9 година
    It’s a lonely job, but somebody has to do it.
  • Konstantin Savenkovje citiraoпре 9 година
    Over the past ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
  • Konstantin Savenkovje citiraoпре 9 година
    Being a good company doesn’t matter when things go well, but it can be the difference between life and death when things go wrong.
  • Konstantin Savenkovje citiraoпре 9 година
    The block was a collection of hippies, crazy people, lower-class people working hard to move up, and upper-class people taking enough drugs to move down.
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