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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys

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