I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  • -- Ben Horowitz 本·霍罗威茨

在成为首席执行官之前,我是一名管理着一个相当庞大团队的高管,我不知道那是什么感觉。当出现问题时,人们会说,‘都是你的错。你的反应是,这不是我的错。“你这话是什么意思?”我是创始人,我雇佣了公司里的每一个人,我管理公司。

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And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

随着我们三人组演奏的越来越多,我们越来越意识到我们真正知道如何利用小组的第四名成员——那个空间。三重奏的特点是,它是你能用最小的单元发出的最大的声音。

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

因此,当轮到我开始开发项目时,我认识了我想要合作的作家,也认识了每一位工作室负责人、每一位高管和许多制片人。我开始从别人的桌子上找东西,然后自己动手做。

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.

一位了解自己作为领导者的优缺点的首席执行官,很可能比那些对自己的长处和短处熟视无睹的人更有效率。

The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.

添加了自己财务指标的公司并不是一个值得称道的群体。