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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.

Ben Horowitz

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader 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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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

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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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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