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

Ben Horowitz

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs

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