Ben Horowitz on Vision Quotes

"Vision is about finding the one thing that will make all other things easier or unnecessary."

"Vision is not just about the destination; it's about the values you uphold on the journey."

"The hardest thing about vision is keeping it when everyone else thinks you're wrong."

"The vision of the company is defined by the quality of the people you recruit to build it."

"In business, vision is about seeing the 'what' and the 'why' before the 'how' becomes obvious to everyone else."

"The most important part of a vision is the part that tells you what you are not going to do."

"If your vision doesn't include how you will treat your people during the hard times, it's incomplete."

"Vision is the bridge between the current reality and the desired future."

"Visionary leadership is about telling a story that makes the hard work worth doing."

"A leader's vision is the ultimate competitive advantage because it cannot be easily copied."

"The vision is the light at the end of the tunnel, but you still have to do the digging."

"If you don't have a vision for where you are going, any road will take you there, but none will keep you alive."

"Your culture is how your company makes decisions when you're not there. That's the ultimate expression of vision."

"The best vision is one that turns a group of individuals into a team with a single purpose."

"A vision is not a dream. It's a plan for how you're going to win."

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

"You must communicate the vision so often that you are sick of hearing yourself talk about it."

"The struggle is where the vision is tested. If it doesn't survive the struggle, it wasn't a vision; it was a hallucination."

"Your vision must be grounded in a deep understanding of the problem you are solving."

"You can't have a vision for a product if you don't have a vision for the market it lives in."

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others but obvious to you."

"A great vision must be simple enough for everyone to understand but deep enough to guide every difficult decision."

"The CEO's job is to keep the vision clear when the data is messy and the outcome is uncertain."

"Wartime CEOs must have a vision that is focused on survival and winning, leaving no room for consensus."

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

"Ben Horowitz and Vision are linked by the idea that a leader must see the truth when it’s ugly."

"The essence of vision is choosing what to focus on when everything seems important."

"In a startup, the vision is the only thing that keeps you going when the bank account is empty."

"Culture is the shadow of the leader's vision cast across the entire organization."

"To have a vision, you must be willing to be misunderstood for a long period of time."

"A vision is only valuable if it helps you make the trade-offs that matter."

"If the vision is clear, the strategy becomes a matter of logic rather than guesswork."

"A vision isn't something you write on a wall; it's something you live every day in the trenches."