Leadership is hard to train on.... -Ben Horowitz

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Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz , Businessman
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Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, investor, and author. Known for his insights on leadership and business, he has made a significant impact in the tech industry and venture capital, co-founding influential companies and sharing his knowledge through his writings and mentorship.

Ben Horowitz Quotes to Explore

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all ...
If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a...
Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you...
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...
With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population usin...
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know....
It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job....
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge....
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business....
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 ...

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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordi...
What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving...
I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders...
Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first a...
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence....
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that wi...
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politic...
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his ...
In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential...
Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. T...