Ben Horowitz on Confidence Quotes

"Every hard thing you overcome adds a brick to the wall of your professional confidence."

"Confidence is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of it."

"The Struggle is not a failure; it is the process of building the confidence required to win."

"Leadership is the ability to get people to follow you even when you have no certainty about the outcome."

"Confidence is the byproduct of preparation and extreme hard work."

"The ultimate test of confidence is how you treat people when everything is going wrong."

"The most important thing I learned as a CEO was to manage my own psychology."

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

"Wartime CEOs must have the confidence to be unpopular."

"In the struggle, your confidence is the only thing keeping the team together."

"You must have the confidence to fire the 'brilliant jerk' to save your culture."

"You must have the confidence to stand by your values when they are tested by the market."

"You build confidence by surviving the things that were supposed to break you."

"To be a successful CEO, you have to have the confidence to ignore the critics and focus on the mission."

"True confidence comes from competence, not from bravado."

"Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly."

"Confidence is the courage to face the facts as they are, not as you wish them to be."

"Belief in the mission is the foundation of all organizational confidence."

"You can't lead if you don't have the confidence to make the final call when everyone else is divided."

"Being a CEO is all about the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves."

"Confidence is knowing that you can handle whatever comes your way, even if you don't know what it is yet."

"If you don't have the confidence to lead through the dark times, you don't deserve the light of the exit."

"The confidence to be different is what leads to innovation."

"A CEO's confidence is infectious; so is their doubt."

"The best CEOs have the confidence to be vulnerable with their teams about the challenges ahead."

"You have to have the confidence to make decisions with only 70% of the information."

"Great leaders have the confidence to hire people smarter than themselves."

"You have to be able to look at the data and have the confidence to pivot when the world tells you you're wrong."

"You have to have the confidence to say 'I don't know' and then find the answer."

"The hard thing isn't dreaming big; it's waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare."

"Confidence is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'."

"The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place."

"If you don't believe in what you're doing, no one else will."