In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
BEN HOROWITZIt’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 hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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There are no silver bullets.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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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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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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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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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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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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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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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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