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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually

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