Most business relationships either become too tense to tolerate or not tense enough to be productive after a while. Either people challenge each othe… - Ben Horowitz

Most business relationships either become too tense to tolerate or not tense enough to be productive after a while.

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.

There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime

A lot of the really junior people really stepped up. It was a great growing experience for them to be thrown into the middle of the ocean and told, “Okay, swim.