151+ Doing The Hard Thing Quotes

“The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers” by Ben Horowitz gives an account of his own hardships and struggle story he faced when he was establishing his start-up.

He has also emphasized tackling some very severe problems that one faces in this journey.

Doing The Hard Thing Quotes

-Setting up a dream is not actually the hard thing to do, but the hard thing is when we lose it and have to lay people off.

-Recruiting people is not hard, but when people start feeling entitled, that’s when it’s hard.

-Keeping a big goal is not hard until the goal turns into a nightmare.

-All of us need friends who are of two types.

-One kind is the ones whom we contact when we are elated and feel like we are on top of the world.

-Other is the ones we contact when we mess up something horribly.

-Sometimes, people need to question themselves about what they are not doing.

-One can’t say they know something until they try to know and understand others.

-One should care about the people, products, and profits in this same sequence.

-All the CEO face long sleepless nights, and they are tensed someday or the other.

-The great CEOs are always stable in their answers, and they never abandon trying.

-Life will always be seen as an ongoing struggle for everybody.

-What we all can do is to hold on to all those struggles.

-We should always try to make our culture which will be rewarding rather than punishing.

-We should always acknowledge the people who bring out their problems in the open.

-An organization needs clarity instead of a solution many times.

-There are possibly no easy recipes for the hard things, which is why they seem hard.

-Sometimes, they are hard because our logic and emotions do not go together.

-They appear hard because we do not have any solutions for them.

-They are hard as we cannot plea for help unless we reveal our frailty.

-One should bite gently when we try to eat shit.

-All decisions turn to be emotional from being objective when we see the first code.

-A person will witness two prime emotions in a startup.

-One is the feeling of intense pleasure.

-Another one is the feeling of trepidation.

-One could say that sleep deprivation triggers these feelings.

-There are practically no differences between being yellow and brave.

-Both of the people feel scared to make a move.

-Eventually, the brave one will triumph over his fear as he is more disciplined.

-People will always judge us based on our actions and not on our emotions.

-One should give all their valuable time to what they can do now and in the future.

-We should never waste our time on what we could have done in the past.

-When we establish a tech company, one of the greatest pleasures is when we get to hire some awesome people.

-The startup CEOs should hope for an outcome; they must find the odds.

-The work of the CEO is the same whether the possibilities are either nine in ten or one in a thousand.

-Business relations are sometimes very complex to handle.

-They can become way too complex to handle or less complex to benefit.

-It’s like people will compete with each other until they hate each other or will be too friendly, making them unproductive.

-It is not the customer’s work to identify the right product but the innovator’s to identify.

-There is no mystery of how to become a successful CEO; the one thing is the focus.

-The thing is to focus and to come up with the best solutions when there are no more good solutions.

-We often see that the employees at some big companies are not trained, but the people at McDonald’s are properly trained.

-This mistake is often made by the employer who thinks his employees are so intelligent that they hardly require any training.

-One should focus on the idea of his strength instead of the lack of weakness.

-We certainly have no formula for handling hard things, making them hard.

-A manager can enhance the output of his employees through sheer motivation and hard training.

-One should believe in statistics and in calculus.

-When you establish a tech startup, you are always in a contest with time.

-Sometimes, the best ideas will turn into disasters with time.

-Communication is the only aim of the process.

-Sometimes, a single person will be the reason for which the entire company project will be delayed.

-The more we trust the person, the less it requires the need for communication.

-There is certainly no quick way to gain knowledge.

-The most important knowledge is the knowledge gained through personal experience.

-The perception that training will be time-consuming is our biggest mistake in training programs.

-The biggest milestone for a CEO is when he stops being too motivating or positive.

-The perks we get in our life are good, but they cannot be compared to culture.

-The markets are not accurate enough to be methodical.

-Markets seem to jump to conclusions, which often turn out to be wrong.

-Sometimes, it becomes easier to see the good qualities in others but difficult to see those within ourselves.

-The main communication base is formed by trust; without it, the whole system collapses.

-It doesn’t matter who you are. You need friends in your life.

-Every time I get past a situation, I think: It was hard. But not so much tough as I thought it would be.

-The hardest thing is leaving people when you miss the goal that you truly want to achieve.

-The hardest thing is waking up cold and sweaty at night after a dream that eventually turned into a nightmare.

-Sometimes, ask yourself what you are actually doing in life.

-You absolutely know nothing until and unless you try to know anything.

-People, products, profits; that’s the order in which you take care of things.

-Great people like CEOs have to deal with sleepless nights.

-Struggle is a very crucial part of anyone’s life.

-Form a culture that awards, not a culture that penalizes or is frowned upon.

-Sometimes, a formation doesn’t need an answer; it just needs a clearer vision.

-Tough things seem tough because there is no easy answer for those things.

-If you are going to eat trash, do not pick it over.

-You only have two feelings: elation and fear.

-Rather than spending your time thinking about what you could have done, spend it to think what you might do.

-The greatest thing about building a technology company is the beautiful minds that you can work with.

-The most significant moral in entrepreneurship is to feel the struggle.

-There is no secret to being a successful CEO.

-People at McDonald’s are trained, but people with far more complicated jobs are not.

-You should always hire people for their strengths rather than for their lack of weaknesses.

-The hard thing about hard things is that there are no formulas to deal with them.

-The struggle is when you don’t know the answer for not quitting your job.

-The struggle is when you think your employees are right when they think you are lying.

-The struggle is when you forget the taste of food.

-The only two ways for a manager to improve the output of their employees are focus and practice.

-I don’t believe in numbers. I believe in calculations.

-The best ideas become terrible ideas after a certain point of time.

-The sole purpose for communication is the progress of your company.

-Whenever you start to do something, it always narrows down to that one single person for whom that something needs to be delayed or even shelved.

-The amount of conversation you have with someone is inverse in proportion to the amount of trust.

-People leave service because you did not keep them involved enough with yourself and your service.

-There is no shortcut for gaining knowledge, especially regarding knowledge that has to be gained from your own experience.

-Hire people with the same mentality as yours and then build strict rules for specific issues and do not deviate from those.

-You should have an opinion on everything because you are a company’s CEO.

-There has always got to be a little bit more.

-My biggest personal improvement as a CEO occurred the day I stopped being too optimistic about everything.

-A company with a healthy culture helps share good and bad news together.

-A company with no personal conflicts and that can solve its own problems frustrates everyone.

-If our company is not doing any good, then what the hell are we doing?

-Things like communication, common knowledge, and decision-making, do not seem big when you have just started but eventually seem bigger when you start to grow.

-The hard thing is to get people to share things within a company that you design.

-You have to become clean to rebuild your trust.

-Keeping an account is significant.

-Startups should definitely train their people first. Or else they would do no good to the company.

-The most important management lesson for a manager/CEO is total training.

-The responsibility of the employee of a big company is much greater than the employee working in a smaller company.

-Finding the right product is the innovator’s job, not the buyer’s.

-The moments when you want to hide or even hide can make a huge difference in your career as a CEO.

-Never bring a problem without an approachable solution in your mind.

-Perks are not a part of the culture. Yet, they are good.

-No market is successful in finding the truth.

-Markets are responsible for getting to a conclusion that is wrong most of the time.

-What would you do if I said that ice cream gives you the same value as that of Broccoli?

-Try spending your mental energy on a solution that is out of the box than on overthinking and expanding your misery.

-You get happier when you see a few things in other people you don’t possess.

-Humans generally prefer to listen to optimistic statements.

-Communication breaks without trust.

-The core reason to being the CEO of a good company is knowledge.

-You are a true leader when someone tends to follow you just out of curiosity.

-To advance your career, you must work long hours.

-If you don’t realize what you need, probably you’re never going to get it.

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