Book Titles

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By Ben Horowitz

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: ISBN-13 978-0062273208
Categories: Businesses, Entrepreneurship, Executives

111 Quotes Found

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

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

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say ‘no.’

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…innovation requires a combination of knowledge, skill, and courage.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…all decisions [are] objective until the first line of code [is] written.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…conventional wisdom has nothing to do with the truth and the efficient market hypothesis [is] deceptive.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

It’s a good idea to ask, ‘What am I not doing?’

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it.

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