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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

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