The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.
Ben HorowitzHire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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 HorowitzWhen 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.
Ben Horowitz