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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Ben Horowitz

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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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Believe Musical Genius People
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
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
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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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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

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