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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management

It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

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