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Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running

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