Ben Horowitz Ideas Quotations

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

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.