Ben Horowitz Quotes

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

When in doubt, do it.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

When in doubt, do something.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.