Fred Wilson: "Chapter five in 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' is possibly the best thing I’ve read about leading a tech company"

Peter Thiel: “Every management guide presumes that all great companies follow a formula. But successful startups don’t imitate; they build innovations that can’t be copied.

Ben Horowitz knows no recipe guarantees success. He has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage.”

Raoul Pal: "Without question, to me, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz is, by far, the best, most brutally honest and incredibly useful book about the realities of starting and running a company, ever written."

Tim Ferriss: "A great book"

Larry Page: "Ben's book is a great read - with uncomfortable truths about entrepreneurship and how to lead to a company.

It's also an inspiring story of a business rebirth through sheer willpower."

Andrew Wilkinson: "'The Hard Things About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz is one of the best business books I've picked up in years."

Marc Andreessen mentioned 'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' on 'The Tim Ferriss Show' podcast.

Blake Scholl: "'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' is good."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Mark Cuban: "This helped me make sense of why things worked and didn't work in the technology industry."

Jeff Bezos: "An enormously influential business book whose principles Amazon acted on and that facilitated the creation of the Kindle and AWS."

Bill Gurley: "A book that all entrepreneurs should read"

Ben Horowitz: "A great book on strategy"

Steve Jobs: "It’s imporant that we make this transformation, because of what Clayton Christensen calls “the innovator’s dilemma,” where people who invent something are usually the last ones to see past it, and we certainly don’t want to be left behind."

Blake Scholl: "Everyone talks about it, I wonder how many people actually read it. You should actually read it.

You should know what disruptive innovation actually means."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

One of Aaron Levie's favorite business books.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Brian Armstrong: "Celebrate the creators in the world (even when they struggle). They may be more valuable than we think."

Blake Scholl: "Far and away my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged"

Elon Musk: "Very appealing if you're a sophomore in college. A counterpoint to communism and useful as such, but should be tempered with kindness."

Peter Thiel: "When I first read [Atlas Shrugged] in the 80s, it felt pretty crazy, and in the last decade, in many ways it's felt much more correct"

Travis Kalanick mentioned 'Atlas Shrugged' in a Washington Post interview.

Fred Wilson recommends 'Atlas Shrugged' for entrepreneurs.