Marc Andreessen on Leadership Quotes

"Innovation is a choice."

"Bad management is the silent killer of great companies."

"If you are constantly reacting to other people's requests, you are not managing your time; they are."

"The best teams are the ones that are aligned on the mission."

"A startup is a team of people, a product, and a market."

"The best founders prioritize the mission over the money."

"Bureaucracy is the tax we pay for a lack of efficiency."

"The most important decision you will ever make is who you choose to partner with."

"A passionate team with a bad product will eventually find a good product. A dispassionate team will just fail."

"The risk of a bad hire is often underestimated by early-stage founders who are in a rush."

"You mitigate risk by hiring people who have seen the movie before and know where the pitfalls are."

"The biggest risk to a startup is often the founder's own ego and inability to admit they were wrong."

"The best founders are the ones who are the most obsessed with the problem they are solving."

"You have to have the confidence to hire people better than you."

"Building something new requires the confidence to stand alone."

"First and foremost, a founder must have courage."

"The plan should always be to hire people smarter than you."

"The first step to excellence is deciding that you will not accept anything less from yourself or your team."

"The team is what you have to work with, but the market is what you're working for."

"You have to be disciplined about your time, or someone else will be."

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the team."

"The most efficient organizations are those with the fewest layers of management."

"The most important thing for a founder is the clarity of their dream and the intensity of their execution."

"If you can't build, you can't lead."

"Culture is what people do when no one is looking."

"The best teams are the ones that hate losing more than they love winning."

"A-players hire A-players; B-players hire C-players."

"Strong views, loosely held."

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time if you want to see your dream come to fruition."

"Hire the best people and then get out of their way."

"If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be comfortable being misunderstood for long periods of time."

"You don't want to be the smartest person in the room."

"The key to making great decisions is to have a diverse set of perspectives."