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Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
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
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
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 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
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
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train

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