Ben Horowitz on Growth Quotes

"You must be able to change your plan as the environment changes. Rigidity is the enemy of survival."

"In a startup, you are always planning for the next milestone. If you lose sight of that, you lose the company."

"There are two kinds of cultures: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where what you say matters."

"There is no such thing as a perfect CEO."

"The best innovators are those who are never satisfied with the status quo."

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

"Innovation is the lifeblood of any business."

"Don’t punk out and quit."

"You can't change your culture by changing your values; you change it by changing your habits."

"Don't focus on the pain, focus on the progress."

"Success is not a destination; it's a journey of continuous improvement."

"The struggle is where greatness comes from."

"If you don't build a culture that can withstand failure, you will never achieve success."

"Great leaders are forged in the heat of competition."

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

"The struggle is the habit of moving forward when everything is falling apart."

"The best creative work happens when you are deeply uncomfortable."

"The most important thing I learned as an entrepreneur was to focus on what I needed to get right and stop worrying about all the things that I did wrong or might do wrong."

"Management is the process of making people better through the work they do."

"In business, if you aren't growing, you're dying."

"When you are scaling, the priority shifts from doing the work to building the machine that does the work."

"Every time you make a hard decision, you are building your character."

"Learning is a lifelong process."

"Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything."

"You need a routine for feedback. If you only give feedback during annual reviews, you are failing as a manager."

"Competition forces you to be the best version of your company."

"Belief is the only thing that can bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be."

"Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform."

"The struggle is not failure, but it causes failure. Especially if you are weak."

"When the facts change, the creative leader changes their mind. Stagnation is the enemy of creativity."

"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."

"A vision that doesn't evolve with the market is a death sentence."

"Adaptability is the most important trait for a CEO."