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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

Ben Horowitz

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

Decision Found Important
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart

It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

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