Top 100 Horowitz's Quotes

#1. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1129
#2. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #3235
#3. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #12179
#4. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #12596
#5. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #16274
#6. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #19879
#7. If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.

Kenneth Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #21567
#8. There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #23428
#9. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #25472
#10. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #30887
#11. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #33305
#12. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #87053
#13. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Sara Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #87587
#14. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #90911
#15. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #92061
#16. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #118621
#17. Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #141290
#18. Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."
Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #177027
#19. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #177124
#20. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #181115
#21. There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #196054
#22. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #196305
#23. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #235206
#24. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #264310
#25. Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #281799
#26. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #300829
#27. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #304190
#28. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #308814
#29. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #319544
#30. The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #338224
#31. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #358039
#32. I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #366292
#33. I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #381018
#34. You think ghosts and witches and vampires and ghosts and two-headed monsters are bad. Why? Do you know what that is, David? It's prejudice. Racial prejudice!

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #385739
#35. Fangio had once said: 'You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It's a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #386278
#36. Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #462172
#37. Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #466245
#38. You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #475736
#39. The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

David Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #484754
#40. Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it's a fierce and unforgiving team sport.

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #485927
#41. When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #555158
#42. It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

Paul Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #593807
#43. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #593977
#44. Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #602675
#45. A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #646126
#46. Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

Israel Albert Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #654522
#47. But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.
That's why they become politicians.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #672501
#48. 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

Horowitz's Quotes #693290
#49. I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #721799
#50. Dr. Seuss's management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle. SCREENING

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #752905
#51. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #789298
#52. You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #807294
#53. You don't want to be hanging around this village. You don't want to be anywhere near here. Do you understand me? I shouldn't be talking to you like this. But if you know what's good for you, you'll get away. You'll go as far away as you can and you won't come back.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #813886
#54. It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.

Paul Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #886081
#55. Note to self: It's a good idea to ask, What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #920211
#56. My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #948062
#57. I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #965003
#58. If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #967042
#59. Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

David Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #973988
#60. All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

Mitch Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #984850
#61. I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1007080
#62. As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1012813
#63. Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

David Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1033694
#64. Yes, yoga may make your company a better place to work for people who like yoga. It may also be a great team-building exercise for people who like yoga. Nonetheless, it's not culture.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1054052
#65. It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1061014
#66. It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1089397
#67. You are a nomad, a wanderer - just like me. You roam the desert and I roam the world. What's the difference between us?

Linda Ruth Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1094530
#68. In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1171755
#69. Yes. I'm an Israeli citizen living in a dream world; a Jewish princess in Arabia, I should have listened to my own children. For God's sake. Egypt is not my country!

Linda Ruth Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1172742
#70. Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1187907
#71. The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1216077
#72. To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

Dave Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1221637
#73. Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work."
"He's mexican" Troy added.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1242922
#74. It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1257557
#75. It's funny how things work out sometimes.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1303950
#76. One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1327349
#77. A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1330737
#78. Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1402203
#79. There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1440256
#80. As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1442700
#81. We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1494231
#82. If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1496669
#83. My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1518263
#84. It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1536220
#85. When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1538702
#86. Either people challenge each other to the point where they don't like each other or they become complacent about each other's feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1545345
#87. Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1551811
#88. It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1576023
#89. I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1583183
#90. As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

David Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1605780
#91. If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1622230
#92. It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1628362
#93. I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1684120
#94. You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old's world.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1732660
#95. When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1745372
#96. When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1771553
#97. How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1775272
#98. Ben, those silver bullets that you and Mike are looking for are fine and good, but our Web server is five times slower. There is no silver bullet that's going to fix that. No, we are going to have to use a lot of lead bullets." Oh snap.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1818084
#99. Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that - it's hard to get someone to follow you if they feel like you hate 'em.

Ben Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1819268
#100. There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

Anthony Horowitz

Horowitz's Quotes #1861582

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