A Quote by Ben Horowitz

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

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Courage Intelligence CEO Decisions Experience Far Found Important Important Decisions More Most Tested Than The Most Important

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Ben Horowitz
English - Businessman
Born: June 13, 1966

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Ben Horowitz

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

Marvin Olasky

The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.

Tim Cook

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important

Rafe Esquith

The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.

Carl Icahn

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Nigel Dennis

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

Mike Rogers

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Muhammad Ali

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Jonathan Kozol

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

Bertrand Russell

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Dale Carnegie

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

John Mackey

The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

Irshad Manji

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.