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

by Ben Horowitz

“I roll with the hardest niggas, make money with the smartest niggas I ain’t got time for you fuckin artist niggas Better shut your trap before you become a target nigga Y’all army brats I’m the motherfuckin sergeant nigga.” —THE GAME, “SCREAM ON ’EM”

If he didn’t have the things wrong with him that you enumerated, he wouldn’t be willing to join a company that just traded at thirty-five cents per share; he’d be CEO of IBM.”

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

If I had a tattoo for every time I heard a CEO claim that she’d just hired “the best VP in the industry,” I’d be Lil Wayne.