Giacomo Ruà > Giacomo's Quotes

“A volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane”
― Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

“When a company starts to lose its major battles, the truth often becomes the first casualty. CEOs and employees work tirelessly to develop creative narratives that help them avoid dealing with the obvious facts. Despite their intense creativity, many companies often end up with the same false explanations.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“There may be nothing scarier in business than facing an existential threat. So scary that many in the organization will do anything to avoid facing it. They will look for any alternative, any way out, any excuse not to live or die in a single battle.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing about Hard Thing: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz