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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want

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