Top 100 Horowitz Quotes
#1. I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
Camille Paglia
#2. I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole
#3. Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."
Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.
Ben Horowitz
#4. At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.
Scott Weiss
#5. Alexandra Horowitz's book Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know should be required reading for anyone adopting a rescue dog or buying a dog from a breeder.
Peter Zheutlin
#6. In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
Marc Andreessen
#7. The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.
David Finckel
#8. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
Camille Paglia
#9. The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt.
Michael Chabon
#10. I actually think that many of the musicians who have something meaningful to say don't win competitions. An incredible pianist like Horowitz had so much to say, but he might not win anything in competition because of his wrong notes.
Charlie Albright
#11. I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.
Noam Chomsky
#12. Mrs. Horowitz said, "It is inexcusable that humans think they can murder other animals because they murder themselves. I must tell you, I hate humans. They terrify me."
"They should," I continued. "I interviewed Yehudi Menuhin the other day.
David Dubal
#13. Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.
Ren Ng
#14. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...
Ben Horowitz
#15. Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.
Jeff Horowitz
#16. But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it.
Anthony Horowitz
#17. It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.
Damon Horowitz
#18. It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.
David Horowitz
#19. I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.
Mitch Horowitz
#20. If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.
Kenneth Horowitz
#21. There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
Ben Horowitz
#22. According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.
David Horowitz
#23. There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.
Ben Horowitz
#24. Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything.
Ben Horowitz
#25. ... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... "
"I've never much cared for horror stories.
Anthony Horowitz
#27. Your employees know each other better than they know you.
Ben Horowitz
#28. In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
Ben Horowitz
#29. He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
Anthony Horowitz
#30. I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
Anthony Horowitz
#31. We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
Anthony Horowitz
#32. What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.
David Horowitz
#33. In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben Horowitz
#34. It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.
Anthony Horowitz
#35. When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
Ben Horowitz
#36. People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
Ben Horowitz
#38. In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.
Anthony Horowitz
#39. John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
Ben Horowitz
#41. If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
Anthony Horowitz
#42. We take care of the people, the products, and the profits - in that order." It's a simple saying, but it's deep. "Taking care of the people" is the most difficult of the three by far and if you don't do it, the other two won't matter. Taking
Ben Horowitz
#43. The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.
Leonard Horowitz
#44. What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"
"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."
"What?"
"I set fire to the boat."
"But we're on the boat!"
"I know.
Anthony Horowitz
#45. And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.
Anthony Horowitz
#46. Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.
David Horowitz
#47. Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.
Paul Horowitz
#50. We're all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others.
Anthony Horowitz
#51. Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.
Ben Horowitz
#52. Ben: "If you need me, I will come home." Felicia: "No. Get the IPO done. There is no tomorrow for you and the company. I'll be fine.
Ben Horowitz
#53. If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.
Anthony Horowitz
#54. I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.
Ben Horowitz
#55. Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.
Jeff Horowitz
#56. In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
Ben Horowitz
#57. The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
Adam Horowitz
#58. There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
Anthony Horowitz
#59. In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form,
so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
David Horowitz
#60. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
Anthony Horowitz
#61. Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.
Mitch Horowitz
#62. You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.
Anthony Horowitz
#63. When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
Ben Horowitz
#64. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
#65. Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.
Anthony Horowitz
#66. He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel there is a difference between lovely and un-.
Alexandra Horowitz
#67. The other part of seeing what is on the block is appreciating how limited our own view is. We are limited by our sensory abilities, by our species membership, by our narrow attention - at least the last of which can be overcome.
Alexandra Horowitz
#68. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley H. Horowitz
#69. The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
Ben Horowitz
#70. Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.
Ben Horowitz
#72. Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
Anthony Horowitz
#74. Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer ... "
"Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.
Anthony Horowitz
#75. By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
Ben Horowitz
#76. I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
Anthony Horowitz
#77. It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief
Anthony Horowitz
#78. What were you going to do with it?" McCain asked.
"I just thought it might come in useful."
"Were you planning to attack me?"
"No. But that's a good idea.
Anthony Horowitz
#79. One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
Ben Horowitz
#80. If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?
David Horowitz
#81. Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.
Anthony Horowitz
#82. Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
David Horowitz
#83. The result of these walks on my head is tangible: they refined what I can see.
Alexandra Horowitz
#84. work long hours to advance the career of my
Ben Horowitz
#85. The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
David Horowitz
#86. It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about - figuring out the right product is the innovator's job, not the customer's job.
Ben Horowitz
#87. We have four blocks here. Block A, where we are now, is administration and recreation. Block B is software development. Block C is research and storage. Block D is where the main Stormbreaker assembly line is found." "Where's breakfast?" Alex asked.
Anthony Horowitz
#88. When it comes to describing our potential physical and cognitive capacities, we are individuals first, and members of the human race second.
Alexandra Horowitz
#89. Noa Now, just like Noa Then, watched his careful fingers turn the crepes. His hands, both Then and Now, moved just the same; everything else, only, had changed.
Lauren Bird Horowitz
#90. I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
Anthony Horowitz
#91. If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
David Horowitz
#92. I have no style, because I change each time ... each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.
Vladimir Horowitz
#93. The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
Ben Horowitz
#95. For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.
David Horowitz
#96. The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
Ben Horowitz
#97. I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
Anthony Horowitz
#98. I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
Anthony Horowitz
#99. A life untrammeled by knowledge of its end is an enviable life. There
Alexandra Horowitz
#100. Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.
Mitch Horowitz
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