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 to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
Ben HorowitzIn my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
Ben HorowitzIn life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben HorowitzMark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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