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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.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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

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