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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

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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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 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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want

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