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:

If your company is a good place to work, you too may live long enough to find your glory.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

If you don’t train your people, you establish no basis for performance management. As a result, performance management in your company will be sloppy and inconsistent.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…there is no investment that you can make that will do more to improve productivity in your company than a training program.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…being too busy to train is the moral equivalent of being too hungry to eat.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

Good product managers… are not part of the product team; they manage the product team.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

People generally leave companies when things are not going well…

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

…often candidates who do well in interviews turn out to be bad employees.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

Running a large organization requires very different skills than creating and building an organization.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

The more experience you have, the more you realize that there is something seriously wrong with every employee in your company (including you). Nobody is perfect.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

Consensus decisions about executives almost always sway the process away from strength and toward lack of weakness. It’s a lonely job, but somebody (only the CEO) has to do it.

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