Citas de Ben Horowitz

• As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

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  Baby, Motivation, Hours

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• In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

  Ben Horowitz

  Decision, Important, Found

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

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• You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Inspiration, Needs

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• The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

  Ben Horowitz

  Stress, Focus, Management

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• You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Differences, People, Vision

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• Los multimillonarios prefieren a las mujeres negras. Son leales y velan por sus intereses. Las esposas negras son para adultos.

  Ben Horowitz

  Wife, Black, Loyal

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• Cada vez que tomas la decisión difícil y correcta te vuelves un poco más valiente, y cada vez que tomas la decisión fácil y equivocada te vuelves un poco más cobarde. Si eres director general, estas decisiones te llevarán a tener una empresa valiente o cobarde.

  Ben Horowitz

  Decision, Choices, Courageous

  "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage". fortune.com. August 5, 2011.

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• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

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  Tecnología, Dos, Gente

  "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

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  Organization, Needs, Clarity

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• I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

  Ben Horowitz

  Mind, Stories, Remember

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• El problema con la innovación es que las ideas verdaderamente innovadoras a menudo parecen malas ideas en el momento.

  Ben Horowitz

  Ideas, Innovation, Looks

  "The Future of the Car Is Electric" by atrick Daniel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Company

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• Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

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  Ambition, Important, Missions

  "Every Executive In Your Company Should Have This Kind Of Ambition" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 30, 2010.

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• No hay atajos para el conocimiento, especialmente el que se obtiene de la experiencia personal. Seguir la sabiduría convencional y confiar en los atajos puede ser peor que no saber nada en absoluto.

  Ben Horowitz

  Knowing Nothing, Shortcuts, Knowledge Gained

  Ben Horowitz (2014). “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

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  Views, Talking, Critical Decisions

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• Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

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  Smart, People, Problem

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

  Ben Horowitz

  Role Models, Needs, Roles

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• Nota para uno mismo: Es una buena idea preguntarse: "¿Qué no estoy haciendo?

  Ben Horowitz

  Self, Ideas, Notes

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• Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

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  Believe, Odds, Play

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• Cuando era director general y escuchaba música, mucha gente escucha música y se inspira en ella. Y muchas cosas del hip hop son muy instructivas para los negocios. En particular, el hip hop trata mucho de negocios, por lo que me resultó muy útil en cualquier trabajo.

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  Jobs, Inspiration, People

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• The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

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  Communication, Keys, Quality

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• I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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  Believe, Statistics, Calculus

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• Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

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  Ideas, Guy, Looks

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• It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Strategy, Turns

  "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.

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• En todas las decisiones difíciles que tomé en el transcurso de la gestión de Loudcloud y Opsware, ni una sola vez me sentí valiente. De hecho, a menudo me sentía muerto de miedo. Nunca perdí esos sentimientos, pero después de mucha práctica, aprendí a ignorarlos. Ese proceso de aprendizaje también podría llamarse proceso de desarrollo del coraje.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Practice, Decision

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

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