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“Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazon’s story in this extended form—not as a mission statement, not as a tagline—Jeff got all the people who mattered on the same page”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“One good test for determining whether to go with outside experience versus internal promotion is to figure out whether you value inside knowledge or outside knowledge more for the position.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“The technique is marvelously described in the classic management text The One Minute Manager.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO. Jason”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers