Ben Horowitz

• The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer. Ben Horowitz

• Peacetime CEO works to minimize conflict. Wartime CEO heightens the contradictions. Ben Horowitz

• There are no silver bullets for this, only lead bullets. Ben Horowitz

• Once you decide that you will have to lay people off, the time elapsed between making that decision and executing that decision should be as short as possible. Ben Horowitz

• Managers must lay off their own people. They cannot pass the task to HR or a more sadistic peer. Ben Horowitz