Ben Horowitz on Growth Quotes

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

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

"It’s not the check that makes the difference; it’s the helpfulness of the board member."

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

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

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

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

"Don’t punk out and quit."

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

"The most important thing to understand about innovation is that it is not a destination, it is a process of constant evolution."

"The pursuit of excellence is a lifelong journey, not a destination."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"The struggle is where character is built."

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

"The enemy of competence is confidence."

"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."

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

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

"Innovation is the lifeblood of any business."

"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 where greatness comes from."

"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."

"True visionaries don't just see the future; they build the culture that makes that future possible."

"You can’t worry about the mistakes, because you’re going to make a lot of them. You’ve got to worry about learning from the mistakes."