Ben Horowitz Quotes

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.